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We're the show that looks at the numbers in the news and in life, and today in death.

I'm Tim Harford.

How much is a human life worth?

Not in spiritual or cultural terms, I am talking about the

cold hard cash value. That is the question at the heart of a book by journalist Jenny

Clemen called The Price of Life. And it turns out that there is not just one price. There

are loads of them, depending on how exactly that life is being created, traded,

or destroyed. I sat down with Jenny to talk it all over. So the book is about the price of life,

all of the different ways that we put a price on life. And you begin rather splendidly by trying to figure out the price of having someone killed.

Yes, I jumped in at the deep end there by looking at the average cost of a hitman

and trying to find a hitman who would explain his prices to me.

And you have this rather lovely meal steak, martinis,

with a classic straight out of central casting Mafia hitman.

Well, tell me a little bit about him.

He's called John Elite.

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