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episode 651: 651: Anja Shortland | How Kidnap Insurance Works


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...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/651

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 April 14, 2022  1h18m