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Cross-border labor mobility : historical and contemporary perspectives

Dowlah, C. A. F. - 2020

1. Introduction -- 2. Global Human Migration -- 3. Slavery - The Ancient and Medieval Periods -- 4. Slavery in the New … World - the Saga of Native Indians -- 5. Slavery in the New World - The Saga of Black Africans -- 6. Indentured Servitude …This book presents a comprehensive review of cross-border labor mobility from the ancient forms of slavery to the …

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Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor : The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life

Bowden, Bradley - 2022

2: Freedom, Slavery and The Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- Chapter 6: Time, Scale and Understandings … of Western Civilization -- chapter 7: What is Freedom? What is Slavery? -- Chapter 8: Freedom, Democracy and … Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation? -- Chapter 9: Slavery and its Legacies -- Part 3: Global …

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Business Ethics from Antiquity to the 19th Century : An Economist's View

Surdam, David George - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

the Ages -- 15. Slavery Throughout History -- 16. Conclusion. …

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The Prince of Slavers : Humphry Morice and the Transformation of Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1698–1732

Mitchell, Matthew David - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade under the Royal African Company Monopoly -- Chapter 3: Morice’s Peers: The Early British Separate Traders -- Chapter 4: Morice’s Beginnings:1704-1719 -- Chapter 5: Morice at the Peak, 1720-1727 -- Chapter 6:...

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Transitory and Permanent Shocks in the Global Market for Crude Oil

Rebei, Nooman - 2020

This paper documents the determinants of real oil price in the global market based on SVAR model embedding transitory and permanent shocks on oil demand and supply as well as speculative disturbances. We find evidence of significant differences in the propagation mechanisms of transitory versus...

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Energy, Efficiency Gains and Economic Development : When Will Global Energy Demand Saturate?

Bogmans, Christian; Kiyasseh, Lama; Matsumoto, Akito; … - 2021

Not anytime soon. Using a novel dataset covering 127 countries and spanning two centuries, we find evidence for an energy Kuznets curve, with an initial decline of energy demand at low levels of per capita income followed by stages of acceleration and then saturation at high-income levels....

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Trading on Their Terms? Commodity Exporters in the Aftermath of the Commodity Boom

Aslam, Aqib - 2016

Commodity prices have declined sharply over the past three years, and output growth has slowed considerably among countries that are net exporters of commodities. A critical question for policy makers in these economies is whether commodity windfalls influence potential output. Our analysis...

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The U.S. Oil Supply Revolution and the Global Economy

Mohaddes, Kamiar - 2016

This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of falling oil prices due to the oil revolution in the United States, using a Global VAR model estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2 to 2011Q2. Set-identification of the U.S. oil supply shock is achieved through...

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Natural Resource Booms in the Modern Era : Is the Curse Still Alive?

Warner, Andrew - 2016

Gulf states, oil rents have financed a migration-facilitated economic expansion with small or negative productivity gains …

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Crop Selection and International Differences in Aggregate Agricultural Productivity

Alvarez, Jorge - 2019

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...

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