Theoretical Blind Spots in Slavery’s Economics
Classic models of slavery’s persistence, particularly those developed by Nieboer (1900) and Domar (1970), rely on land abundance and labor scarcity as determining variables. In our new
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Theoretical Blind Spots in Slavery’s Economics
Classic models of slavery’s persistence, particularly those developed by Nieboer (1900) and Domar (1970), rely on land abundance and labor scarcity as determining variables. In our new
Introduction
Historical scholarship often links trade booms with rising coercion, from Eastern European serfdom to plantation slavery in the Americas. Yet many societies operated with more than one coercive labor system simultaneously. My