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The Brute Economics of Slavery

…I recognize that there are qualitative differences between chattel-slavery and serfdom: – In slavery, the master owns the person of the slave; in serfdom the master owns the labor output…

Freedom vs. Four Freedoms

by Bruce Webb In a previous post I made a stab at explaining the differences in Republican and Democratic responses to the economics of stimulus by an appeal to differences

International Saving Comparisons

Following up on yesterday’s post about the capital flow puzzle, I thought I’d examine savings and consumption patterns more closely, since differences in savings behavior are (as I argued) the…