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..., such as Malthus, Whately, Senior, and Mill. Despite this and his having been trained initially as a businessman, he devoted no special attention to economics. Nonetheless, he tackled certain topics of undoubted socioeconomic importance, such as the slave trade and the colonial question and overseas trade...

... with William Wilberforce to assemble the “Clapham sect.” This group of evangelical Christians pressed the cause of Christ in all manner of venues, most prominently in seeking to end the slave trade and in working to repatriate freed slaves to Africa. Thornton served on numerous committees working...

... University Press. Fitzhugh , George . 1857. 1960 . Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. Reprint, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fobre , Nancy . 1994 . Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint. London: Routledge. Fraser...

... that absolute governments treat slaves more kindly than republican states” (Stigler 1982a, 140). As Stigler relates it, Smith’s proposition sounds ridiculous and smells of polemical excess. But Stigler actually misinterprets Smith’s account of these matters. In fact this particular application...

... parties were better off through reparations than they could have been made through physical retribution. Such a welfare consideration seems to have underlain the penalties for physical injury inflicted on one’s own slaves. Where instant death resulted, the penalty, despite the difference...

... the long passage in the Anderson notes headed “Of Slaves which begins halfway down p. 30 of the manu- script and ends at the foot of p. 35. A paragraph-by-paragraph com- parison of this passage with the corresponding parts of the section on slavery in Volume 111 of the 1762-63 lecture notes...

..., Ind.: Liberty Fund. Buchanan, James M., and Gordon Tullock. 1962 . The Calculus of Consent . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Buxton, Thomas Fowell. [1839] 1968 . The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy . London: Dawsons of Pall Mall. ____. [1840] 1968 . Prospectus of the Society...

..., and the sudden appear- ance of calculation among the physiocrats in particular (7). They begin with Pierre- Samuel Dupont, who aimed to show that, despite all appearance, wage labor was in fact economically preferable to slave labor, and therefore that the real economic interest of colonial planters could...

... the Moral Society, in East-Hampton, (Long-Island) . New London, Conn.: Green. Bretz, Julian P. 1929 . Economic Background of the Liberty Party. American Historical Review 34.2 : 250 -64. Carey, Henry C. 1853 . The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May be Extinguished...

...–1865 . 2 vols. New York: Augustus M. Kelly. Emmanuel , Arghiri . 1972 . Unequal Exchange . New York: Monthly Review Press. Fitzhugh , George . 1854 Sociology for the South . Richmond: A. Morris. Fitzhugh , George . [1857] 1960 . Cannibals All! or Slaves Without Masters...

... objections to the right of primogeniture. Equally, we will draw some parallels between the fate of slaves in some stages of social development and the fate of the poor. We will conclude our defense of the view that dis- tributive considerations are part of Smithʼs conception of justice by exam- ining...

...: primitive communism, the ancient or slave economy, feudalism, capitalism, and advanced communism. This is a misinterpretation, for in their various writings, they also analyzed the Asiatic mode of produc- tion-e.g., Capital I, part iv, ch. 14, 0 4; MEW 23: 378 ff.5 In addition...

.... Harrod , R. F. 1951 . The Life of John Maynard Keynes. London: Macmillan. Hession , C. H. 1983 . John Maynard Keynes: A Personal Biography of the Man Who Revolutionized Capitalism and the Way We Live. New York: Macmillan. Inikori , J. E. 1976 . Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade...

... inequities were due to personal rather than institutional shortcomings. Theodoretus proceeds to apply similar reasoning to the relations of masters and slaves. The servant has advantages over the master. The latter has to occupy himself with the needs of his family, to pay taxes, to find a market...

... explicitly that women’s natural attributes would af- fect their ability to engage in manual labor and warfare.’ He specified his views on the relative productivity of male and female labor when discussing the evils of slavery: “As it is for the labour of the slaves that 8. Modern anthropological...

... is obvious; Burke regarded it to be the unfortunate effect of the discouraging of industry resulting from religious persecution and commercial restraint. His critical comments on the slave trade and slavery should not be neglected in this connection. For instance, in Sketches of Negro Codes , Burke...

... in itself risks becoming a slave to what William James Booth (1993, 49) describes as the “invisible master” of pleonexia. This troubling possibility only amplifies the difficulties faced by a money-maker striving for the good life; after all, action directed toward acquiring unlimited riches can...

.... The fact that the laborer cannot own land himself because all is appropriated does not turn him into vassal or slave, as far as Locke is concerned. As we shall see, Locke’s laborer is protected from selling himself into slavery by natural law, and by the fact that he has alternatives. Locke’s...

... to the Scottish Enlightenment, edited by S. Todd Lowry. Boston: Kluwer. Gordon , B. 1989 . The Problem of Scarcity and the Christian Fathers: John Chrysostom and Some Contemporaries Studia Patristica 22 : 108 -20. Gordon , B. 1991 . Rich, Poor, and Slave in the Socioeconomic Thought...

..., not of commodities. The latter was the language of Marx’s wage slave. Commodities have no use-value for their proletarian producer, from whom they are alienated in the course of capitalist pro- duction; they have no use-value for the capitalist either, who was only interested in their exchange value...