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Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time for you to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook can take viewers inside the wily world lately seventeenth- and early on eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the invisible economics behind pirates' notorious, interesting, and sometimes downright stunning behavior. Why have pirates take a flight flags of Skull & Bone fragments? Why have they generate a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to consider these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate traditions we realize and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit of profits.
The Invisible Hook looks at famous pirate captains like Blackbeard, Dark colored Bart Roberts, and Calico Jack port Rackam, and shows how pirates' search for plunder led them to pioneer exceptional and forward-thinking procedures. Pirates known the advantages of constitutional democracy--a model they used more than fifty years before the United States have so. Pirates also initiated an early system of personnel' compensation, regulated taking in and smoking, and occasionally employed racial tolerance and equality. Leeson contends that pirates exemplified the virtues of vice--their self-seeking interests generated socially appealing effects and their greedy criminality guaranteed social order. Pirates demonstrated that anarchy could be arranged.
Exposing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most brilliant bad guys, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the modern day world.
