What can you learn from pirates? Plenty. Pirates have appeared at pivotal periods in historywhen capitalism spread along the trade routes toward the Indies, when radio opened an era of mass communication, when the Internet became part of the global economy. Most people view them as solitary anarchists out to destroy capitalism. But as it turns out, the opposite is true. In The Pirate Organization, Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne argue that piracy both drives capitalisms evolution and foreshadows the direction of the economy.
