Econ 210a: Fall 2006: Agriculture and Forced Labor in Early Modern Growth: Major Headings
Nov. 1. Agriculture and Forced Labor in Early Modern Growth [DeLong]
- Evsey Domar (1970), "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis," Journal of Economic History, pp. 18-32 http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/001447.html
- Why slavery (or serfdom)?
- Aristotle: we will always have slavery until we have looms that work of themselves.
- Landlord upper class--needs workers, and no alternative land for the workers to go to.
- Laborlord upper class--needs effective means of control.
- What limits the rate of exploitation with laborlords?.
- Trade and laborlords.
- 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 Historians of the United States" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper no. h0066) http://papers.nber.org/papers/h0066.pdf
- Haiti richest in world in 1776.
- Haiti not richest in world today.
- What went wrong in Haiti--and what went right in North America?
- What is Sokoloff and Engerman's story?
- Sokoloff and Engerman aren't doing economics, are they?
- Claudia Goldin and Kenneth Sokoloff (1984), "The Relative Productivity Hypothesis of Industrialization: The American Case, 1820-1850," Quarterly Journal of Economics 99 (August), pp. 461-87 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533%28198408%2999%3A3%3C461%3ATRPHOI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
- America rich in land, and scarce in labor.
- America scarce in capital.
- Why, then, did part of America--New England--industrialize?
- O'Brien, Patrick (1982), "European Economic Development: the Contribution of the Periphery," Economic History Review, 1-18. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0117%28198202%292%3A35%3A1%3C1%3AEEDTCO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
- How much did western Europe gain, 1500-1800, from trade?
- How much did western Europe gain, 1500-1800, from pillage?
- How much did western Europe gain, 1500-1800, from empire?
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