This is both far less interesting, and done somewhat ham-fistedly.
"A fresh and provocative take on the Golden Age pirates. I was told there is at least one glaring error I totally missed. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Peter T. Leeson spoke at my college when I was a freshman (six years ago now) and I went for an extra credit in my gen ed econ class. Muy bien documentado, destaca sobre todo por la coherencia y originalidad de sus ideas. This isn't a new revelation. by Princeton University Press Somehow it feels as though this book would be more satisfying if it were about something completely void of character or intrigue. Awakened - Book One of The Quintessence: Crucible: (An Epic Cultivation LitRPG Saga) This just goes to show The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson is a book that examines the golden age of high seas piracy through the eyepatch (oh boy, the puns are starting early this review) of Economics. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. He explores the day to day incentiThis has easily become one of my all time favorite books. Rational choice theory assumes all men are selfish.
Peter is an excellent author because he makes a concept like spontaneous order to digestible using a real-world example.
Es betrachtet ein historisches Phänomen - nämlich das der Piraten um 1790 - aus einem völlig anderen Blickwinkel.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Lastly Leeson doesn’t address the greatest pirate economics question of all: How much is corn on a pirate ship? It teaches you that pirates was just a name and were ahead of time in their economicsOverall the book does manage to be both entertaining and educational.
Your tolerance for it may depend on how much tolerance you have for its tendency towards the economist-libertarian and for the cutesy. Peter T. Leeson spoke at my college when I was a freshman (six years ago now) and I went for an extra credit in my gen ed econ class. Blackbeard, one of the most notorious pirate captains in history, abstained from killing. So pirates look like whatever the author's fantasy of a rational person is--and that rationale is usually economic--so long as you ignore what they actually do to other people. Leeson writes with clarity and the depth of his research is impressive. A bit too many quotes taken verbatim for my liking. Somehow it feels as though this book would be more satisfying if it were about something completely void of character or intrigue. I found this book delightful, but problematic--but also intriguingly problematic. The Invisible Hook dives into the forces and mechanisms that make that web so dynamic and interesting and brings them out in isolated causal terms. As it is, there's enough fascinating historical information (especially in the afterword) to make Invisible Hook just interesting enough to be let down by. The way externalities were fixed on board pirate ships with no government is something developed countries should be jealous of. Who'd have thought Blackbeard was simply doing the best cost-benefit analysis on how to pay his motley crew? You could either (1) be interested in economics and want to know how it applies to pirates, or (2) be interested in pirates and want to know how economics can make sense of pirate behavior. It might have been driven purely by profit, but pirate society managed to be far ahead of the Western societies of its time - and when one looks at the abuses of the system and erosion of voting and other civil rights taking place now, the "one pirate, one vote" system still comes out ahead. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? This book is excellent. I recommend this book to anyone interested in economics, pirates, history or just anyone who wants to expand the way they look at the world.I was never particularly interested in pirates nor in economy, but this book sounded like an interesting combination.
This lines up beautifully with the Lockean account of capital: if all of labor and capital can be reduced to plucking acorns from trees, or to rationally-motivated pirates stealing only from ships' owners, then piracy (as a sort of fantastic/mundane stand-in for labor) can be made into an activity that is at once violent and economically rational.
Black Sails changed my whole idea of what historical, or historicist fantasy, fiction could achieve. Leeson helped me to specify something present in all pirate literature: that it rests on a fantasy that the "externalities" of pirate communities to non-pirate communities are pretty much ignored, most of the time.
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The Invisible Hook