A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy - Couverture souple

Weiss, Thomas

 
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Synopsis

In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.

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À propos des auteurs

Fred Bateman is professor of economics at the University of Georgia.

Thomas Weiss is professor of economics at the University of Kansas.

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9780807814475: A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0807814474 ISBN 13 :  9780807814475
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 1981
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