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The Material Roots of Western Racism
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This article assesses the US discussion on the material roots of racism in which writers such as Malcolm X have been heavily criticised by ‘marxists’ for substituting race for class in the analysis of society. The article argues that such criticism departs from the classical Marxist...
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Capitalists Without Capital: The Burden of Slavery and the Impace of Emmancipation
Ransom, Roger L.; Sutch, Richard - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 1988
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Coercion, Conflict, and Commodities
Cilliers, Jacobus - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2013
Russia, and the prevalence of slavery in West Africa. The second result explains why coercion decreased in the Kivu privinces …
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) February, pp. 1-10
Latin America up until the 19th century. However, the influence of slavery differs significantly across countries and …
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МЕЖДУНАРОДНО-ПРАВОВЫЕ ДОКУМЕНТЫ И ИХ ЗНАЧЕНИЕ В ОБЛАСТИ БОРЬБЫ С ТОРГОВЛЕЙ ЛЮДЬМИ
ВИКТОРОВИЧ, КАРЯЗОВ НАИЛЬ - In: Бизнес в законе. … (2011) 3, pp. 162-165
Данная статья посвящена важной проблеме борьбе с торговлей людьми. Борьба с торговлей людьми имеет большую историю и на разных этапах развития государств она...
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6.6. АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ НОРМ РОССИЙСКОГО И МЕЖДУНАРОДНОГО ПРАВА, НАПРАВЛЕННЫХ НА БОРЬБУ С ТОРГОВЛЕЙ ЛЮДЬМИ...
АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ, МЕЗАВЦОВ МИХАИЛ - In: Бизнес в законе. … (2010) 3, pp. 106-110
Предлагаемая читателю статья касается актуальных законодательных проблем борьбы с торговлей людьми. Автор раскрывает сходства и различия понятий «личная...
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Colonial Institutions, Slavery, Inequality, and Development: Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil
Summerhill, William - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … end of the twentieth century; (2) measures of the intensity of slavery have little if any independent impact on income in … contemporary economic or political inequality. Overall, neither the intensity of slavery nor the pattern of inequality had any …
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Sequential Sales As a Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves
Pritchett, Jonathan; Smith, Mallorie - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011
We propose an alternative test for adverse selection using notarial records for slaves sold in New Orleans in 1830. The experiment is simple and mimics the used car example originally proposed by Akerlof (1970). When first sold in New Orleans, buyers of imported slaves were uninformed of the...
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The Occupations of Slaves Sold in New Orleans: Missing Values, Cheap Talk, or Informative Advertising
Pritchett, Jonathan; Hayes, Jessica - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2011
Although plantation records indicate that many slaves in the southern United States were artisans and craftsmen, relatively few slaves were recorded as such on the New Orleans sales invoices. Robert Fogel (1989, p.57, 162) assumes that the slaves without recorded occupations were unskilled...
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Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 5 (2011) 2, pp. 145-164
Using previously unexploited data, this paper explores the ages at which slaves were manumitted. OLS estimates reveal that mixed-race slaves, slaves in the tobacco-producing Piedmont, and female slaves of female slave owners were manumitted at younger ages. Weibull proportional hazards estimates...
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