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September 1, 2009

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’s become hard to tell the categories apart.

(Via Omnivoracious’s neat meta-book-review.)

Posted September 1, 2009 at 10:56 | Comments (2) | Permasnark
File under: Briefly Noted

I like The Invisible Hook. It was a little repetitive
in places, but otherwise it was interesting look at pirates.

There was a great interview with the autor on econtalk a couple of month ago: