Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business

ISBN-13: 9780198815471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Reader in Political Econo Anja (Reader in Political Economy

Opis

Ransom is a lucrative but very tricky business. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, this book provides an economic analysis of how the trade in hostages works, and uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.

Recenzje

The important issues raised by this book make it an indispensable guide for those interested in understanding the dark world of kidnapping for ransom. Joshua Sinai, Washington Times

O autorze

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.