Review

A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY

Volume: 15 Number: 2 November 29, 2019
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A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY

Abstract

The purpose of this review is to critically evaluate Peter Leeson’s paper in which he argues that piracy as profit-seeking criminal activity may produce socially desirable outcomes and achieve a social order and then, concludes that criminals’ self-interested and profit-seeking activities are capable of producing public benefits in the context of invisible hand. More precisely: the purpose is to critically discuss and evaluate Leeson’s general conclusion, line of reasoning and to present counter-arguments in the context of invisible hand and pirates’ relative racial tolerance policy towards black sailors in their crews. Leeson tries to investigate the political economic and social impacts of piracy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and argues that black crew members’ economic and social status in pirate ships were more progressive compare to the legitimate merchant ships. Leeson reads black crew members’ status in pirate ships as an improvement in racial equality, economic and social justice. Therefore, he concludes that self-interested and profit-seeking criminal activities are capable of producing socially laudable outcomes. In contrast to Leeson, the argument in this review is that self-interested and profit-seeking criminal activities are not capable of producing socially laudable outcomes.

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References

  1. [1] LEESON, P. T. (2009). “The Invisible Hook: The Law and Economics of Pirate Tolerance”. New York University Journal of Law and Liberty. Retrieved from Peter T. Leeson’s website: https://www.peterleeson.com/The_Invisible_Hook.pdf (Access Date: 01.10.2019)
  2. [2] MALTHUS, T.R. (1798). An Essay on the Principle of Population. (D. Winch, Ed.). The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1992. p. 13-20.
  3. [3] LOCKE, J. (1689). Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Rethinking the Western Tradition). (I. Shapiro, Ed.). Yale University, 2003. p. 141-142.
  4. [4] LOCKE, J. (1689). Ibid., p. 100-111.
  5. [5] LOCKE, J. (1689). Ibid., p. 101-103.
  6. [6] LOCKE, J. (1689). Ibid., p. 102-142.
  7. [7] LOCKE, J. (1689). Ibid., p. 141-157.
  8. [8] SMITH, A. (1776). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press for Thomas Nelson and Peter Brown, Harvard College Library, 1827. p. 184.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Review

Publication Date

November 29, 2019

Submission Date

October 14, 2019

Acceptance Date

November 28, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 15 Number: 2

APA
Aktan, Ö. (2019). A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY. Journal of Naval Sciences and Engineering, 15(2), 113-128. https://izlik.org/JA72LG84XD
AMA
1.Aktan Ö. A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY. JNSE. 2019;15(2):113-128. https://izlik.org/JA72LG84XD
Chicago
Aktan, Özgenur. 2019. “A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY”. Journal of Naval Sciences and Engineering 15 (2): 113-28. https://izlik.org/JA72LG84XD.
EndNote
Aktan Ö (November 1, 2019) A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY. Journal of Naval Sciences and Engineering 15 2 113–128.
IEEE
[1]Ö. Aktan, “A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY”, JNSE, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 113–128, Nov. 2019, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA72LG84XD
ISNAD
Aktan, Özgenur. “A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY”. Journal of Naval Sciences and Engineering 15/2 (November 1, 2019): 113-128. https://izlik.org/JA72LG84XD.
JAMA
1.Aktan Ö. A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY. JNSE. 2019;15:113–128.
MLA
Aktan, Özgenur. “A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY”. Journal of Naval Sciences and Engineering, vol. 15, no. 2, Nov. 2019, pp. 113-28, https://izlik.org/JA72LG84XD.
Vancouver
1.Özgenur Aktan. A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PETER LEESON’S ARGUMENTS ABOUT PIRACY. JNSE [Internet]. 2019 Nov. 1;15(2):113-28. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA72LG84XD