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Peter Leeson
Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University

Author of the award-winning The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates and, most recent, WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird. Big Think listed him among "Eight of the Word's Top Young Economists." 

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