Episode description
Anja Shortland is a professor of political economy at King’s College, London who specializes in the economics of crime. She is the author of Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business and Lost Art: The Art Loss Register Casebook Volume One.
What We Discuss with Anja Shortland:- How many people are kidnapped every year for ransom, and how many actually return from the ordeal alive?
- What incentives do kidnappers have to treat hostages nonviolently and bargain for their release in good faith?
- How do insurers keep vulnerable clients from letting down their guard once a policy has been obtained?
- The protection theory that explains how crime organizations (e.g., the mafia) effectively stabilize the kidnap-for-ransom industry.
- Why offering a higher ransom than demanded is the worst strategy for ensuring a hostage's safe release.
- And much more...
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