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September 1, 2009

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Adam Smith vs. Blackbeard

This sounds like a made-up book title, but oh, it’s real: The Invisible Hook, on “the hidden economics of pirates.” Caleb Crain writes it up:

Are pirates socialists or capitalists? Lately, it