The Economics of Labor Coercion

Econometrica

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 555-600

  Acemoglu, Daron ^a,b   Wolitzky, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coercion; Feudalism; Labor scarcity; Principal agent; Slavery; Supermodularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951538731     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8963     Document Type: Article

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