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432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger

Freakonomics Radio

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How to Minimize the Kidnapping

Economist ana shortland studies what she calls tricky markets. Shortland has written a book called kidnap, inside the ransom business. You minimize kidnapping by making sure that the people who control the territory get a certain flow of funds. The company agrees to pay the protector as long as their workers and projects aren't attacked. Who supplies this protection differs from place to place....

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