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title: "Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja: Thailand's Illegal Economy and Public Policy"
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# Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja: Thailand's Illegal Economy and Public Policy

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## Customer Reviews

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    Four Stars
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2015*

An interesting book.

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    A sound empirical study
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2005*

Before I read this book, I had traveled to Thailand several times and I had interviewed a number of Thai informants on both the new second international airport project and on several ongoing LRT projects in Bangkok, related to my Ph.D research on large global infrastructure projects.Based on my time traveling in Thailand and based on the many stories of corruption told by expatriate managers, I became fascinated with the Thai socio-economic, political and legal system. As a result, I picked up this book in a local bookstore in Bangkok.I do not know the literature on Thailand well, but I was delighted with the breadth and depth of understanding that this book provided concerning the informal economy in Thailand. The book also describes the links between economic activity in Thailand and other nations in the South East Asian region.The authors are Thai, but educated at Ivy league schools in the US, so they offer a local perspective underpinned by sound empirical research and analysis.I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about the Thai economy, or about the basic cultural-cognitive belief and value systems that cradle and reinforce the innerworkings of this economy.The policy implications suggested at the end of the book are not naive, but well considered. Although they may not be directly applicable in neigbouring countries (i.e. Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar), they should shed light on the types of interventions that will be necessary in order to increase transparency and reform illegal activities in the Asian pacific region.

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    Disgusting...but Probably True for the Most Part...
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2009*

This book takes a hard look at the illegal aspects of Thai society with its gambling, prostitutes (girls), drugs (mainly ganja as marijuana is known, but also heroin and other drugs), and other areas or vices that occur in many societies.  The book argues that it is this underground presence or support that is basically driving or causing the very wide gap between rich and poor that exists not only in a country like Thailand, but in the country of the United States as well (any recently graduated bachelor's degree student of General Studies could tell a reader that).What can be learned from this book?  How important it is to stay away from these things and how equally important it is that if the reader has a history of being involved in either ends of these things that he/she continues to stay away from it.  It also serves as a warning to those who may be participating in these things that they are in fact illegal, but in Thailand (and in the U.S.) there's always corruption in some of the police and those who are entrusted to enforce the laws.

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