Christopher Coyne & Anja Shortland on Kidnap

On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Christopher Coyne interviews Anja Shortland on her book Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business. Listen as they unpack the many puzzles of kidnapping, such as which incentives influence the perpetrators, how a powerful private governance system has ordered the negotiation and transaction process, why most kidnappings end peacefully, and what happens when kidnapping goes wrong.