Pirate Politician? Former President Vicente Fox Which came first the beach house or the scandal?

The classic Rapidsea corruption question is popping up again today: Which came first the beach house or the scandal? I have chided Rep. Jerry Weller’s (R-IL) Nicaraguan land deals and Larry Craig’s (R-ID) yacht club lifestyle, but a new issue has popped up with Mexico’s Former President Vicente Fox in the Houston Chronicle today. It [...]

Pirate Politician ~ Torturing tropical kittens to stop Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.)

After learning from Professor Leeson how much law and order went into piratical governance, I couldn’t help but think that Rapidsea should host an occasional section called "Pirate Politician."  I have just the candidate for September. The political sphere is buzzing about Representative Jerry Weller (R-Illinois) who had made some misjudgments in revealing some paradisiacal [...]

Pirational foundations of freedom and governance as told by Peter T. Leeson

Peter T. Leeson of George Mason University has a couple of unpublished manuscripts in which he has written about pirate law and economics. One of them is called “An-arggh-chy: The Law and Economics of a Pirate Organization.” In it he argues that pirate navies were very well organized and attracted many of Britain’s sailors because [...]

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