Gordon Tullock and the economics of slavery

Phillip W. Magness (), Art Carden () and Ilia Murtazashvili ()
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Phillip W. Magness: American Institute for Economic Research
Art Carden: American Institute for Economic Research
Ilia Murtazashvili: University of Pittsburgh

Public Choice, 2023, vol. 197, issue 1, No 6, 185-199

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates Gordon Tullock’s unpublished manuscripts that proposed a public choice interpretation of American slavery.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 1958 article on the economics of slavery, Tullock’s writings influenced the early 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 and identify the links between the economics of slavery and the public choice research tradition.

Keywords: Gordon Tullock; Slavery; Public choice; Alfred H. Conrad; John R. Meyer; John E. Moes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 N31 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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