Eric Schlosser at BookPeople
"When government makes a free-market activity illegal -- smoking pot, buying porn, being an illegal alien -- it creates a black market that's untaxed, unregulated, and often dangerous," observes Nick Barbaro of Eric Schlosser's follow-up to Fast Food Nation. "And if you want to see where the government is interfering with the workings of the market, look at the underground economy."
"...the ground, and last year netted $800, which he wired home to his family in Oaxaca...."
May 16, 2003 Books Feature by Nick Barbaro