WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird

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Peter T. Leeson, "WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird"
English | ISBN: 1503600912 | 2017 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Step right up! Get your tickets for WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird! This rollicking tour through a museum of the world's weirdest practices is guaranteed to make you say, "WTF?!" Did you know that "preowned" wives were sold at auction in nineteenth-century England? That today, in Liberia, accused criminals sometimes drink poison to determine their fate? How about the fact that, for 250 years, Italy criminally prosecuted cockroaches and crickets? Do you wonder why? Then this tour is just for you!
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