Peter T. Leeson is a Professor of Economics and BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University. He is also the North American editor of Public Choice. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, the F. A. Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Fellow in Political Economy at Harvard University. Professor Leeson is the author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (2009) and a recipient of the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Order's Hayek Prize, which he received for his research on self-governance.