Invisible hook: (Record no. 4309)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691150093
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 330
Item number LEE
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Leeson, Peter T.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Invisible hook:
Remainder of title the hidden economics of pirates
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Princeton University Press
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Jersey
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 271 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code USD
Price amount 16.95
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history’s most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates’ trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world.<br/><br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economics
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Public Policy & General Management IB/IN/898 21-12-2022 Indian Institute of Management LRC Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks 01/02/2023 International Book Centre 921.66 1 330 LEE 004111 03/21/2023 03/07/2023 1 1401.77 01/02/2023 Book

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