Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter (2003): Slavery and other property rights.
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Abstract
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 labor 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 labor society, where the elite own the land, but people are free.
| Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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| Original Title: | Slavery and other property rights |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Slavery; long-run growth |
| Subjects: | E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment P - Economic Systems > P5 - Comparative Economic Systems > P51 - Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems |
| Item ID: | 372 |
| Depositing User: | Nils-Petter Lagerlöf |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2019 15:28 |
| URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/372 |
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