This is a presentation on The Illicit Global Economy by Nils Gilman, a consultant with Monitor Group, at the 4th European Futurist Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland on 27-Oct-2008. (http://www.european-futurists.org/wEnglisch/programm/Programm2008/programm2008.php)

1. the global illicit
economy
Dr. Nils Gilman
Monitor Group
European Futurists Conference, 2008

2. deviant globalization
the unsanctioned global flows of goods
and services that violate bourgeois
ethical sensibilities

3. deviant health care

4. rule #1
perfectly legitimate forms of demand can
produce perfectly deviant forms of
supply

5. deviant pharma

6. rule #2
uneven global regulatory structures
create arbitrage opportunities for deviant
entrepreneurs

7. deviant shipping

8. rule #3
pathways for legitimate globalization are
always also pathways for deviant
globalization

9. deviant software

10. rule #4
once a deviant industry professionalizes,
crackdowns merely promote innovation

11. deviant weapons

12. rule #5
states themselves undermine the
distinction between legitimate and
deviant economies

13. deviant finance

14. rule #6
unchecked, deviant entrepreneurs will
overtake the legitimate economy

15. deviant lobbyists

16. rule #7
deviant globalization presents an
existential challenge to state legitimacy

17. the geopolitics of deviant globalization:
post-modern, post-revolutionary, post-
progressive

18. Dr. Nils Gilman
The Monitor Group
nils_gilman@monitor.com