Economic Apartheid Kills
Economic apartheid is really all about economic slavery, even if the slaves don’t quite comprehend their terrible situation. After all, that’s why the elites gave them Wal-Mart to pacify them. Though the United States economy has seen
Pro-Slavery Democrats
Charlie Rangel, said restoring slavery will be his top priority when Democrats resume control of Congress in January:. Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways
Engerman on Slavery
Economic effects of slavery. Adam Smith's argument that slavery is inefficient. (Smith considered sadism as an alternative hypothesis, using the phrase "will to domineer".) Smith had never seen a plantation, which may have affected his
New York Exhibit Examines Slavery
“One of the things that you’ll see in this exhibit is slavery was central to American life,” said James Horton. “It had a central place of importance in American economics. Slavery, by the time of the Antebellum period, decades before
Engerman on Slavery
Stan Engerman talks about slavery in the latest episode of EconTalk. So this podcast includes discussions of Brazilian slavery, African slavery in Lauren Landsburg, who is the editor of the Library of Economics and Liberty (the
Econ 210a: Fall 2006: Agriculture and Forced Labor in Early Modern
in Paul David et. al., Reckoning with Slavery, chapter 5. Robert Fogel and Stan Engerman (1974), Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, chapters 1, 4, and 6. David Galenson (1981), White Servitude in Colonial
WHO BENEFITS FROM ECONOMICS?
Not apparent in contemporary economics is Smith's contention that “Labour, List argued that economics cannot be separated from politics, Slavery was a major source of such wealth and a major cause of America’s Civil War.
Urban Tourism by Demographic Group
Black-themed museums have opened in several cities, with new ones soon to come, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington and a United States National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, Va.
Economics Is Not Slavery. Economics Is Not Warfare And Conquest
Two posts by Don Boudreaux undermine two of the more pernicious myths in commentary about
Econ 210a: Fall 2006: Agriculture and Forced Labor in Early Modern
Adam Smith's bet: slavery inefficient. Why was his bet wrong? Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff (1994), "Factor Endowments, Institutions and Differential Paths of Development Among New World Economies: A View from Economic
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