Orderly anarchists

Michael Shermer
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Michael Shermer: Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic magazine, a columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Mind of the Market. shermer@skeptic.com

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7252, 176-177

Abstract: The profit motive has led pirates to come up with surprisingly democratic and egalitarian social structures. It is a lesson in bottom-up economics, explains Michael Shermer.

Date: 2009
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