ABSTRACT
The process of replacing the real mafioso with the mafioso state is well explored by Charles Tilly and Michael Mann. In modern mafioso states, market bypassing dominates in the economic realm. Business actors are not mere lame ducks and will utilize every option available to be less dependent upon the mafioso. The bottom-up mafioso state tends to maintain a friendly state-business interaction, although the mafioso state itself becomes very unstable due to the divisions within the ruling elites. When a mafioso state is overrun by a bigger and better mafioso state in an international war, the former is defeated and then subjugated into a larger mafioso system. The domestic mafioso state, under the auspices of the victor mafioso, creates a new system of levying extracts. The rise and success of big businesses in East Asia require a more dynamic outlook than those that emphasize, for instance, tradition or culture.
