There was a great episode of NPR's Planet Money a few months ago about modern pirate economics. The Somalis have time-sheets and everything. Negotiations are very businesslike and predictable. At the end of the one they used as a case study, the pirates persuaded the ship owners to drop them a few hundred miles down the coast so as to avoid brigands on land. If I had more time, I'd find it.
There was a great episode of NPR's Planet Money a few months ago about modern pirate economics. The Somalis have time-sheets and everything. Negotiations are very businesslike and predictable. At the end of the one they used as a case study, the pirates persuaded the ship owners to drop them a few hundred miles down the coast so as to avoid brigands on land. If I had more time, I'd find it.
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