There's a very enjoyable review of three new books about pirates in the New Yorker. I particularly enjoyed this description of the author of The Invisible Hook:

Peter T. Leeson, an economist who claims to have owned a pirate skull
ring as a child and to have had supply-and-demand curves tattooed on
his right biceps when he was seventeen, offers a different approach.
Rather than directly challenging pirates’ leftist credentials, Leeson
says that their apparent espousal of liberty, equality, and fraternity
derived not from idealism but from a desire for profit. “Ignoble pirate
motives generated ‘enlightened’ outcomes,” Leeson writes. Whether this
should comfort politicians on the left or on the right turns out to be
a subtle question.

An economist with supply and demand tattoos – respect!