early-twentieth centuries. The existing historiography has tended to emphasize a cultural or religious basis for slavery in … Africa to eastern Arabia and the Gulf. Globalization helped spread Arabian commodities to markets around the world but …

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and … develop a theory to account for this based on the framework proposed by North et al. (2009), where indigenous slavery may have … indigenous slavery is robustly and negatively associated with the quality of governance and with current income levels. …

the model, the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny occurred in those parts of Africa that were the most …, slavery, and polygyny. I then use cross-sectional data on pre-colonial African societies to demonstrate that, consistent with …

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. …

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

What sustains slavery, and why at critical junctures—the fall of the Roman Empire, the early modern expansion of … between free and servile labor? Why has slavery usually been ended by legal prohibition rather than voluntary abandonment? An … extremely simple dual-equilibrium picture can illuminate how, when, and with whose support slavery is introduced or abolished …

The article analyzes some recent episodes concerning slavery-like practices and human trafficking reports. The problem … the international covenants concerning slavery and its unethical aspects, a sociological explanation of the phenomenon … environment, we will try to understand the «social functions» of slavery today. The structure of modern society is the result of a …