The Ransom Problem

Planet Money

• Episode: The Ransom Problem
• Website: Planet Money
• Feed URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289
• Duration: 00:20:12
• Published: 2017-09-02 03:45

When someone has been kidnapped, what do you do? If you pay ransom, you create a market for hostages. If you don't, people die. Different countries have different policies with different results.