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ISBN: 9789054875987 Year: 2009 Publisher: Brussel Prometheus, Liberaal Kennis Centrum
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ISBN: 0691150095 9780691150093 9780691137476 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press
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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 pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate customs we know and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit of profits. The Invisible Hook looks at legendary pirate captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer remarkable and forward-thinking practices. Pirates understood the advantages of constitutional democracy--a model they adopted more than fifty years before the United States did so. Pirates also initiated an early system of workers' compensation, regulated drinking and smoking, and in some cases practiced racial tolerance and equality. Leeson contends that pirates exemplified the virtues of vice--their self-seeking interests generated socially desirable effects and their greedy criminality secured social order. Pirates proved that anarchy could be organized. Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world.
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ISBN: 2870900716 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bruxelles Contradictions
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ISBN: 9780691161204 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press
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ISBN: 9780881326970 Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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ISBN: 2706100850 Year: 1977 Publisher: Grenoble : [Paris] : Presses universitaires de Grenoble F. Maspero,
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ISBN: 0465014003 0465013996 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Basic Books
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ISBN: 9069620421 Year: 1988 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage,
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ISBN: 0865975469 086597554X Year: 2005 Volume: 5 Publisher: Indianapolis Liberty Fund
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ISBN: 0865975477 0865975558 Year: 2005 Volume: 6 Publisher: Indianapolis Liberty Fund
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