The invisible hook the hidden economics of pirates
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss - it's time to go a-pirating! "The Invisible Hook" takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirate...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
cop. 2009
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The invisible hook
- Vote for Blackbeard. The economics of pirate democracy
- An-arrgh-chy. The economics of the pirate code
- Skull & bones. The economics of the Jolly Roger
- Walk the plank. The economics of pirate torture
- Pressing pegleg. The economics of pirate conscription
- Equal pay for equal prey. The economics of pirate tolerance
- The secrets of pirate management
- Epilogue: omnipresent economics
- Postscript: you can't keep a sea dog down. The fall and rise of piracy.
