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A large number of Africans check out China each year to buy mobile phones, automobile parts, and other products that they can import with their home countries by using a clandestine global rear channel. A huge selection of Paraguayan retailers smuggle computers, consumer electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil. Ratings of laid-off San Franciscans, working without any licenses, use Twitter to sell home-cooked foods. Dozens of major multinationals sell products through unregistered kiosks and street vendors about the world. When we think of the casual economy, we tend to think of crime: prostitution, firearm running, drug trafficking. Stealth of Nations opens up this underground realm, showing how the worldwide informal current economic climate deals mainly in legal products and is, in truth, a ten-trillion-dollar industry, so that it is the second-largest current economic climate on the globe, after that of the United States.
