Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

by Kenneth A. Loparo

Overview

Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria provides an economics perspective on the witchcraft episode, and adds to the growing body of work analyzing prominent historical events using the tools of economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137506344
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/06/2015
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	121
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Franklin G. Mixon, JR. received a PhD in economics from Auburn University in 1992. He began his academic career that same year at Southeastern Louisiana University (1992-1994). Mixon has also held academic posts at the University of Southern Mississippi (1994-2007), Auburn University (2008-2009), Mercer University (2009-2010) and Columbus State University (2010-present), where he is currently Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education. In terms of research, Mixon s areas of interest include public choice economics, labor economics, industrial economics and sports economics. He has published in several prestigious journals, such as Applied Economics, Communications in Statistics Simulation and Computation, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, Games, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Journal of World Business, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Public Choice and Souther

Table of Contents

1. The Political Economy of Historical Events 2. Puritanism and the Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony 3. A Brief History of the Salem Witchcraft Phenomenon 4. Modern Theories of the Witchcraft in Salem 5. Public Choice and the Economics of Religion 6. A Public Choice Perspective on the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria 7. Some Economics of the Aftermath of Salem