The original structure of this book was divided into three parts in addition to the first and last chapters. Chapter 1 provides an introduction by defining money laundering and placing the issues and challenges associated with the phenomenon into a comtemporary context. Chapter 2 examines the politics of monet laundering and looks at why governments may at times unintentionally support, deliberately overlook, or even engage in money laundering. Chapter 3 develops three economic models that demonstrate why monet laundering is a rational activity in which to engage, and some of the policy implications associated with attempting to curtail the trade in financial secrecy services... etc.