Econ 210a: February 10, 2016: Unfree Labor and Its Consequences: DRAFT
Are these the right five papers for first-year Ph.D. students in Economics to read for their week spent thinking about unfree labor--slavery, serfdom, debt peonage, etc.? If not these, what are the right papers?
Stefano Fenoaltea (1984), “Slavery and Supervision in Comparative Perspective: A Model,” Journal of Economic History 44:3, pp. 635-668. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2124146
Robert Brenner (1976), "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe", Past & Present 70 (Feb.), pp. 30-75 http://www.jstor.org/stable/650345
Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff (1994), "Factor Endowments, Institutions and Differential Paths of Development among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States," NBER Working Paper no. 10066 http://papers.nber.org/papers/h0066.pdf
Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman. 2013. “Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain,” American Economic Review 103 (February): 107–144 https://www.aeaweb.org/atypon.php?return_to=/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.103.1.107
Nathan Nunn (2008) “The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (February): 139–176 http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/25098896.pdf
