The Poverty of Slavery How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy /

• Main Author: Wright, Robert E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Microeconomics.; Labor economics.; Economic history.; Economics.; Labor Economics.; Economic History.

This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy, much lik...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Yet Another Half Untold
• 2. Various Degrees of Liberty
• 3. A Not So Peculiar Institution
• 4. Slavery Resilient
• 5. That Which is Seen: Enslavers' Profits
• 6. That Which is Unseen, Part I: Slavery’s Pollution
• 7. That Which is Unseen, Part II: Slavery’s Hidden Costs
• 8. Real Abolition.