Public Choice Economics And The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria Hardcover

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Franklin G. Mixon

A recent Google search of the phrase "the Salem Witch Trials" turned up more than 1.75 million results. As the results suggest, the witchcraft episode in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, remains a "go to" topic for scholarly debate. The crux of the episode, that 20 individuals were wrongly executed on the accusation of being witches/practicing witchcraft, has since become part of the American subconscious, particularly in the political realm.Beyond simple "witch hunt" fascination, the Salem witchcraft phenomenon is worthy of further intellectual inquiry for any number of reasons. 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.

1137506342

9781137506344

English

Palgrave MacMillan

13 Jan 2015

121

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 South