Ep. 1039 WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird

Published: Nov. 15, 2017, 8:37 p.m.

Economist Peter Leeson has just released a challenging new book, via Stanford University Press, that tries to make sense of seemingly irrational practices from far-off times and places -- ranging from wife sales to trial by battle, as well as things far weirder -- through the lens of economics.