Slavery and other property rights

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 319-342

  Lagerlöf, Nils Petter ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LABOR; MODELING; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SLAVERY;

EID: 58149295789     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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