Time Analyzes the Strange Relationship between Italy and the Mafia
No one will win next month’s elections in Italy, especially not the nation’s citizens. For all the campaign rhetoric about change and reform, everyone seems dead set on ignoring the country’s fundamental problem: organized crime, or what we might call our criminal economy. Talk of this corruption crisis never goes beyond expressions of solidarity with the victims, praise for the valiant police, and generic appeals to morality. All of which leads nowhere. Last year, a report by the Italian business association Confesercenti estimated that the Mob in Italy generated more than $125 billion of annual revenue, a figure equal to 7% of the country’s gross domestic product. That’s more than double the annual income of Italy’s entire agricultural sector.
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