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Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show with insights from the people at the top.

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What do the worlds of business and crime have in common?

Criminals are often remarkably business-like and business-people are sometimes remarkably criminal.  Evan Davis and guests explore the parallels between commerce and wrongdoing.

From Somali pirates who've turned kidnapping into a global enterprise to cybercrime and fraud  - the worlds of business and wrongdoing potentially have much in common. Clever criminals build business empires and fraud is sometimes carried out by well paid workers at legitimate companies. What the two worlds can have in common is a pursuit of profit and a series of apparently rational calculations.  Evan Davis and guests explore why some bright, talented people try to get rich the wrong way, while others manage to do it within the rules.

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Barrister, Sara George, a partner at Sidley Austin LLP
Michael Corrigan, Chief Executive at Prosper 4 - a training and recruitment firm for former prisoners
and Dr Anja Shortland, Reader in Political Economy at King's College, London.

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