slave price series indicates that the price of rice was the major determinant of the demand for slaves and in turn largely …

/15. In real terms, however, there was essentially no change in slave prices deflated either by a general consumer price index …, or the price of rice. Low Country slave prices were well above those in the West Indies and Maryland prior to the 1740s …

enough however, the relative price of capital goods, an important component of the user cost of capital has never been …

countries of Canada, Australia, the USA, Argentina and the rest of Latin America. The resource abundant New World was endowed …