Legalized Extortion: A State-led Governance Regime to Control Informal Street Vending at Lima’s Gamarra Market, Peru

<p>Based on Charles Tilly’s definition of state-making, this article develops the concept of <em>legalized extortion</em> to understand the expansion of the state’s fiscal capacity towards informal street vending. It presents an in-depth analysis of the case of the textile cluster...

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Main Author: Francesco Ginocchio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LSE Press 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
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Online Access:https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/132