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Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business
Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in...
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Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably low ransoms. In fact, the market for hostages is so well ordered that the crime is insurable. This is a puzzle: ransoming a hostage is the world's most precarious trade. What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? And why would kidnappers release a potential future witness after receiving their money? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.
Author: Anja Shortland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/07/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780198815471
About the Author
Anja Shortland is a Reader in Political Economy at King's College London. She has worked as an academic economist at Leicester and Brunel Universities, rising to fame for her work on the economics of Somali piracy. She now studies private governance in the world's trickiest markets: hostages, fine
art, and antiquities- and how people live, trade, and invest in complex and hostile territories.
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Author: Anja Shortland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/07/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780198815471
About the Author
Anja Shortland is a Reader in Political Economy at King's College London. She has worked as an academic economist at Leicester and Brunel Universities, rising to fame for her work on the economics of Somali piracy. She now studies private governance in the world's trickiest markets: hostages, fine
art, and antiquities- and how people live, trade, and invest in complex and hostile territories.
This title is only available via back order
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