American slavery. Drafted in response to Conrad and Meyer’s seminal 1959 article on the economics of slavery, Tullock …’s writings influenced the early cliometric debate over slavery through his University of Virginia colleague John E. Moes. This … paper uses Tullock’s surviving writings to map out his theory of slavery and situate it in the broader economic analysis of …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies … reducing slavery in the export industry tend to raise slavery in the remainder of the economy. It is possible that this leakage … effect dominates the reduction of slavery in the export sector …

history, an economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in … effective in reducing slavery in the export industry tend to raise slavery in the remainder of the economy. It is possible that … this leakage effect dominates the reduction of slavery in the export sector. …