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Slavery and Other Property Rights -super-1

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The institution of slavery is found mostly at intermediate stages of agricultural development and less often among hunter-gatherers and advanced agrarian societies. We explain this pattern in a growth model with land and labour as inputs in production and an endogenously determined property rights institution. The economy endogenously transits from an egalitarian state with equal property rights to a despotic slave society where the elite own both people and land; thereafter, it endogenously transits into a free labour society, where the elite own the land but people are free. Copyright , Wiley-Blackwell.

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  • Nils-Petter Lagerlöf, 2009. "Slavery and Other Property Rights -super-1," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 76(1), pages 319-342.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:restud:v:76:y:2009:i:1:p:319-342
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