Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: spaces, flows and pathways
梳理非法活动的类型及其与合法经济的关系,探讨经济地理学忽视非法经济的理论问题,适合关注经济地理、非法经济研究的学者。
My purpose in this article is selectively to draw upon and use the available evidence to summarise the various forms/types of illegal activities, their relationships to the formal legal economy, their various spatialities and geographies, and to identify some of the theoretical and conceptual issues raised by recognising the absence of consideration of the illegal/illicit in the economic geography literature and to consider in a preliminary way some of the implications of this lacuna. This will inevitably be a partial and preliminary exercise, not least because of the fragmented nature of the available empirical evidence on illegal economies.