Close to a year ago I blogged about a new pirates paper I was writing investigating the economics of infamous pirate practices. Since then, the paper has undergone massive revisions. The new and hopefully improved paper is now available on my website.
You can download it here: "Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices."
For those who have emailed me over the past half year or so looking for the paper since I removed it to revise, thank you for your patience; I hope the wait was worth it.
Also in June of last year I mentioned that I would soon be putting the third part of my economics of pirates trilogy on my website in the fall. It's now spring and, as a number of you who have emailed me looking for this paper have noted, the title is up but the link is not yet active. Very soon it will be, so stay tuned.
Finally, I'm now in the process of writing a book on the economics of pirates entitled, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, History's Most Notorious Criminals. It's currently under contract with Princeton University Press and, with any luck, will be out in 2009. Here I explore in depth the economics of all manner of pirate behavior.