Anja Shortland (Reader in Political Ec Reader in Political Economy

Gebundenes Buch

Kidnap

Inside the Ransom Business

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780198815471
• ISBN-10: 0198815476
• Artikelnr.: 53775586