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affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …
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trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been …
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Columbus's arrival in the New World triggered an unprecedented movement of people and crops across the Atlantic Ocean. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased...
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economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies … reducing slavery in the export industry tend to raise slavery in the remainder of the economy. It is possible that this leakage … effect dominates the reduction of slavery in the export sector. …
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technologies are likely to be postponed due to the peculiar characteristics of emission allowance prices. Furthermore, this price …
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find that prices have a negative impact on transitions in the sense that an increase in the brand price will reduce the … transition from generics to brand and likewise an increase in the generic price will reduce the transition from brand to generics …
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