Download This PaperGordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery
27 Pages Posted: 7 Jan 2023 Last revised: 29 Jun 2023
Date Written: June 28, 2023
Abstract
This paper investigates Gordon Tullock’s unpublished manuscripts that proposed a public choice interpretation of American slavery. Drafted in response to Conrad and Meyer’s seminal 1959 article on the economics of slavery, Tullock’s writings influenced the early cliometric debate over slavery through his University of Virginia colleague John E. Moes. This paper uses Tullock’s surviving writings to map out his theory of slavery and situate it in the broader economic analysis of the institution.
Keywords: Gordon Tullock, Slavery, cliometrics
JEL Classification: B31, N31, P16
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Magness, Phillip and Carden, Art and Murtazashvili, Ilia, Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery (June 28, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4318585 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4318585
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