Come on... Camorra, 'Ndrangheta and Mafia are not the same thing.
Does it really matter? Isn't it more like you can see them as different branches of The Mafia, merely distinguishable from one another by their operation area (inside Italy)? The fact that Italian economy (and government, or society as a whole? But this would be another discussion!) is highly infiltrated by The Mafia (either active, by protection money or via loan-sharking, i.e.) and that an economic crises is a gift from heaven for them (there's a lot of black money to be laundered, in one way or the other), there's no need to distinguish between the different groups, IMHO.
I don't say that these groups and implications are an Italian singularity, but in Italy the implications for the Economy are maybe the worst (at least in the Western world). Or maybe I'm just naive?
It only matters because it makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about. There is really no such thing as the "Mafia". It's a lot like calling every extremist Islamist group a branch of "Al Qaeda" – i.e., lumping a lot of categorically different groups into an imaginary hierarchy created by law enforcement and the media as a convenient scapegoat.
Where are you from? If you are from US, what you say is like taking all the criminal bands and small org across US and say: look what the US mob is doing...
I think, in this case and discussion, it's just about the scale of the influence and power. So yes, if you want to measure the influence and the power of the american mob to the US economy: sum it up and don't distinguish between different groups.
I agree on the scale, but then you really need to put a table comparing with other countries. What happens if I say Italians eat 100 M tonnes of ice scream per year? Is it a lot? A lot compared to what?
I don't agree on the influence and power and that's exactly the point. If you sum up all the US criminals, you get a raw index of criminality in the country, not how much power few criminals have over US people. If all US criminals where part of the same organization, the infamous US mob, that would be a huge problem then. But US mob does not exist, the same as Mafia does not rule all criminality in Italy.
Does it really matter? Isn't it more like you can see them as different branches of The Mafia, merely distinguishable from one another by their operation area (inside Italy)? The fact that Italian economy (and government, or society as a whole? But this would be another discussion!) is highly infiltrated by The Mafia (either active, by protection money or via loan-sharking, i.e.) and that an economic crises is a gift from heaven for them (there's a lot of black money to be laundered, in one way or the other), there's no need to distinguish between the different groups, IMHO.
I don't say that these groups and implications are an Italian singularity, but in Italy the implications for the Economy are maybe the worst (at least in the Western world). Or maybe I'm just naive?