The paper sketches an argument for a classical liberal view of the "natural rights" of life, liberty, property and the …

Sir Isaiah Berlin, in his 1958 essay and inaugural lecture, "Two Concepts of Liberty," expands on the ideals of liberty … idealized liberty with two distinct branches: positive and negative. Although the essay is a bit controversial, producing such …

institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … end of the twentieth century; (2) measures of the intensity of slavery have little if any independent impact on income in … contemporary economic or political inequality. Overall, neither the intensity of slavery nor the pattern of inequality had any …

trade and slavery have evolved into a “modern” business, especially under the forms of compulsory labour and sexual …

The institution of slavery is found mostly at intermediate stages of agricultural development, and less often among …

exogenous land quality and endogenously evolving population determine the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I use …, slavery, and polygyny occurred where land was most suitable for agriculture, and where population density was greatest. These … theories of slavery. …

The ``land abundance'' view of African history uses sparse population to explain economic institutions. I provide …