The invisible hook : the hidden economics of pirates

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2009

Abstract/Sommario: 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 the ...; [leggi tutto]

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The invisible hook : the hidden economics of pirates / Peter T. Leeson. - Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2009. - XVI, 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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