The Invisible Hook : The Hidden Economics of Pirates /

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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'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leeson, Peter T., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Informal economy > pirates.
Economic history.
Ekonomi.
Sjörövare > ekonomiska aspekter > historia.
Democratie.
Economie.
Zeeroverij.
Seeräuber
Wirtschaft
Seeräuberei
Economics.
Aspects economiques.
Histoire.
Piratage.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
economics.
Économie politique.
Pirates > Histoire > Aspect economique.
Pirates > History > Economic aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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