Trade Economics

1) a) Can you identify the groups that gained from and supported the trade in opium between the British, the Indians, and the Chinese? b) Compare the persistence in the export of Opium to China and the persistence of the export of Opium and its derivative into the USA? In what way could you say that the methods are the same in China as in the USA today. c) Describe how drug cartels are able to recruit new members when their members are murdered. d) Describe also how the concept of drug cartels’ corporate social responsibility makes it difficult to control drug trafficking in Latin American countries e) Do you agree that drug cartels are actually socially responsible? If not, why not? f) Would you use the video on Dutch policies and the effect of legalization to justify legalization in the USA?