Step right up! Get your tickets for WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird! This rollicking tour through a museum of the world's weirdest practices is guaranteed to make you say, "WTF?!" Did you know that "preowned" wives were sold at auction in nineteenth-century England? That today, in Liberia,...

Main description: What can today's corporate raiders learn from the scourge of the high seas? A lot, as it turns out! Pirates have a surprising amount to teach about building better organizations, promoting diversity in the workplace, and creating powerful brands, among many other business...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Invisible Hook -- 2. Vote for Blackbeard: The Economics of Pirate Democracy -- 3. An-arrgh-chy: The Economics of the Pirate Code -- 4. Skull & Bones: The Economics of the Jolly Roger -- 5. Walk the Plank:...