Pirate ships were significantly more cooperative and orderly than their popular depiction, and this order was grounded in a system of early constitutional democracy with elected officers and a written code that functioned to keep the criminal enterprise together.

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Peter Leeson

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pirate ships it seems were incredibly cooperative and orderly they weren't perfectly so but they were but they were significantly more more orderly and cooperative than they're typically depicted

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Peter Leeson on Pirates and the Invisible Hook 05/25/2009EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:31 AM

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