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 pirates'...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.