Slavery and other property rights

Nils-Petter Lagerlof ()

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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.

Keywords: Slavery; long-run growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 P51 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-05, Revised 2006-08-30
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