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Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

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  1. Franklin G. Mixon

    1. Center for Economic Education, D. Abbott Turner College of Business, Columbus State University, USA

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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.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Political Economy of Historical Events

    • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
    Pages 1-20

  3. Puritanism and the Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony

    • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
    Pages 21-31

  4. A Brief History of the Salem Witchcraft Phenomenon

    • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
    Pages 32-41

  5. Modern Theories of the Witchcraft in Salem

    • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
    Pages 42-63

  6. Public Choice and the Economics of Religion

    • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
    Pages 64-74

  7. A Public Choice Perspective on the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

    • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
    Pages 75-99

  8. Some Economics of the Aftermath of Salem

    • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.
    Pages 100-104

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 105-121
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Economic Education, D. Abbott Turner College of Business, Columbus State University, USA

    Franklin G. Mixon

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

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