作者：Queens University - Canada; University of Hull; University of Rochester; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：John Stuart Mill's comment that the British Caribbean was really a part of the British domestic economy, because almost all its trade was with British buyers and sellers, is used to make a new assessment of the importance of the eighteenth-century slave systems to British industrialization. If the value added and strategic linkages of the sugar industry are compared to those of other British industries, it is apparent that sugar cultivation and the slave trade were not particularly large, nor ...
作者：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
作者：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
作者：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
作者：University of Delaware
摘要：Convicts account for at least one-quarter of British migration to mid-eighteenth-century America. Their transportation to and disposal in America was essentially an experiment in privatizing post-trial criminal justice, A model of this trade is developed that yields testable implicational regarding the relative distributional moments of convict auction prices, the size: of shipper profits, and how convicts were selected for transportation. Quantitative evidence is assembled to test, these impl...
