Review of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson

Emillea Conklin-Cohen

doi:10.62374/e7632963

Review of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson

Authors

Emillea Conklin-Cohen Beloit College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62374/e7632963

Keywords:

criminals, economic forces, reputation building, violence and insanity, torture, brutality, loopholes

Abstract

Pirates have been called many things, “sea-monsters…hell-hounds…Robbers, Opposers and Violators of all Laws, Humane and Devine… Devils incarnate…children of the wicked one.”, but never before has their keen use of economics been a key characteristic of history’s most notorious criminals. This is where Peter T. Leeson gets involved. A professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University, Leeson aims to uncover the relationship between his two major academic passions, economics and piracy.

References

Leeson, P. T. (2009). The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400829866

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Published

Sep. 8, 2011

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2011)

Section

Book reviews

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Conklin-Cohen, E. (2011). Review of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson. New Perspectives on Political Economy, 6(2), 101-103. https://doi.org/10.62374/e7632963