Pirates

Originally published in Review of Austrian Economics

Bylund, Carden, North, and Storr raise important questions about, and offer important challenges to Dr. Leeson's my recent book, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. Dr. Leeson offers a few reactions to each of their papers.

In Dr. Leeson's my recent book, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (Princeton University Press, 2009), he uses basic economic theory to analyze late seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century pirates. Bylund, Carden, North, and Storr raise important questions about, and offer important challenges to, some of the particular aspects of the book. Dr. Leeson offers a few reactions to each of their papers.

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