The Economics of Piracy

We Americans are fascinated by piracy. From Treasure Island to the Pirates of the Caribbean,  novelists and filmmakers have capitalized on our idolatry of the nonconformist seafaring swashbuckler. Me, I’m not so fascinated. I tend to think of pirates as murderers and thieves rather than heroic idealists. It is precisely my disinterest in pirates that [...]

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:30:05 +0000