Anja Shortland on Lost Art

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Economist and author Anja Shortland of King's College London talks about her new book, Lost Art, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. When a famous painting disappears into the underworld of stolen art, how does it make its way back into the legitimate world of auction houses and museums? Drawing on the archives of a private database of stolen objects--the Art Loss Register--Shortland discusses the economics of the art world when objects up for sale may be the result of theft.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you could subscribe, comment on this episode and find links and
0:18.5	other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.5	You'll also find our archives, with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.2	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.2	Today is May 20th, 2021, and my guest is economist, Ania Shortland of Kings College, London.
0:43.5	She previously appeared on econtalk in June of 2019 to talk about her book Kidnap, which
0:48.3	was a fantastic book and conversation.
0:51.1	That conversation was about stolen people.
0:53.8	Today's conversation is about stolen art.
0:56.7	Even if you're other things as well, her new book is Lost Art, and you're welcome back
1:01.2	to econtalk.
1:02.2	Thank you for having me back.
1:05.0	So let's start with the basic problem.
1:06.6	Let's say you know I'm an art lover, maybe I'm an art dealer or a collector, and you
1:11.8	contact me to tell me you have a copy of a Rembrandt.
1:16.0	So I'm so excited.
1:17.5	But my excitement is going to be tempered by the fact that what you're selling may not
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