The Invisible Hook

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• The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates

  The world is in the middle (if we're lucky) of the most catastrophic destruction of private and public wealth in the history of free markets. Not the best time, you might have thought, to publish a book that discovers wondrous analogies between class ... (read full critics)

  barnesandnoble published on Thu, 2 Sep 2010

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  Riccardo Mariani said on Nov 29, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  very intuitive! never knew even pirates have a lot of organizations and economics involved. especially on the profit-driven incentives that organizes them nicely, given their time period & background.

  the author therefore is a believer of free-market, and profit-driven industry. he even quoted 'gr ... (continue)

  very intuitive! never knew even pirates have a lot of organizations and economics involved. especially on the profit-driven incentives that organizes them nicely, given their time period & background.

  the author therefore is a believer of free-market, and profit-driven industry. he even quoted 'greed is good' from the movie wall street. haha, now is early 2010, where all financial firms are giving out big bonuses, really doubt the phrase is gonna have some positive impact on the society now.

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  Lyoeleex said on Jan 22, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  The Invisible Hook

  Highly recommended.

  The book is throughly charming, with its detailed account of many of pirating practises during the Golden Age of Piracy, like the Jolly Roger or egalitarian system of booty-division, as well as deep and insightful analysis from an Economic perspective.

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  Calvin Qiu said on Jul 25, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• ISBN-10: 0691137471
• ISBN-13: 9780691137476
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
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