Based on life history interviews with successfully retired drug dealers, this article examines opportunities and challenges in the suburban underground economy. “Friendship” is key. Suburban drug dealing occurs exclusively through networks of friends, kin, and the acquaintances thereof. Friends are functionally necessary for the suburban illegal drug business but also economically inconvenient in that they require sharing drugs, spending time, “hanging out,” and “partying.” Friends represent “transaction costs” in conventional economic terms. The ambivalence produced by this, in profiting from friends and mixing sociality and commerce, is best understood via insights from economic anthropology, preeminently Marcel Mauss. For Mauss, gifts and self-interest, generosity and profit, are, and ought to be, conceptually inseparable. Dealers vividly demonstrate this entanglement.

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不便的友谊：成功的可卡因经销商如何管理社会责任

本文基于对成功退休的毒贩的生活史访谈，考察了郊区地下经济中的机遇和挑战。“友谊”是关键。郊区毒品交易完全通过朋友、亲属及其熟人的网络进行。朋友对于郊区的非法毒品生意来说在功能上是必要的，但在经济上也很不方便，因为他们需要分享毒品、花时间、“出去玩”和“聚会”。朋友代表传统经济术语中的“交易成本”。由此产生的矛盾心理，从朋友那里获利，将社交和商业混为一谈，最好通过经济人类学（尤其是马塞尔·莫斯）的见解来理解。对莫斯来说，礼物和私利、慷慨和利润在概念上是并且应该是不可分割的。