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. …

Nunn (2008) found a negative relationship between past slave exports and economic performance within Africa. Here we … raiding outside Africa, and find evidence that questions the validity of such suggestion. In addition, our reading of the …

institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and …

institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and …

institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and …

Despite the fact that slavery existed historically in almost all known societies, historians have as yet been unable to … identify any shared values from which the institution could have arisen. This article reconstructs slavery as a form of debt or … obligation, by suggesting that slavery occurred when an individual with no apparent alternative but that of imminent death …

from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change … the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in … America. In the aftermath of the Civil War, uncertainty was a pervasive feature of life in the South, affecting the economic …

from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change … the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in … America. In the aftermath of the Civil War, uncertainty was a pervasive feature of life in the South, affecting the economic …

trade from East Africa. The paper ends by considering how this imagined history might affect recent attempts to build an …The image of Arabs in East Africa has been forged through economic and social relations dating back many centuries, but …