This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has … history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates … individuals from participating in the economy. Historians, economists, policymakers, and anti-slavery activists need no longer …

-- 4.Some Short Thoughts on “The Economics of Slavery”Thomas Straubhaar -- 5.Emancipation of the peasantry in Lower … that Ely Whitney had invented the Cotton Gin in 1793 and already then made slavery in cotton production literally … superfluous. While there have been several books on the economics of American slavery, few studies have examined this issue in an …

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