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The Sicilian mafia has become the template for organised crime. But where did they come from?

00:00 - 00:55 - Intro
00:55 - 02:55 - some mafia background
02:56 - 04:52 - will I be able to enter Italy ever again
04:52 - 05:57 - the market for lemons
05:57 - 07:51 - lemon production and politics
07:51 - 10:08 - eat your fruits
10:08 - 12:30 - maths

Many thanks to David Angel!

Sources:
Go check out the main source for this video. It is really interesting.
Arcangelo Dimico, Alessia Isopi, and Ola Olsson, “Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons,” The Journal of Economic History 77, no. 4 (2017): 1083–1115, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26787062

John Dickie, Cosa Nostra : A History of the Sicilian Mafia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Salvatore Lupo, History of the Mafia (Columbia University Press, 2009)

Paolo Buonanno et al., “Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse in the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia,” The Economic Journal 125, no. 586 (August 1, 2015): F175–202, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12236.

Catherine Price, “The Age of Scurvy,” Science History Institute, August 14, 2017, https://sciencehistory.org/stories/ma...

Stephen Bown, Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005)

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2022/...

Elenora C Gordon, “Scurvy and Anson’s Voyage Round the World: 1740-1744 an Analysis of the Royal Navy’s Worst Outbreak,” American Neptune 44, no. 3 (1984): 155–6

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