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Capitalism And Slavery

Eric Williams
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The article was published on 1944-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1363 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capitalism.

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Reversal of fortune: geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution*

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the reversal in relative incomes of colonized countries during the past 500 years resulted from societies with good institutions taking advantage of the opportunity to industrialize.
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Rethinking racism: toward a structural interpretation *

TL;DR: In this paper, a structural theory of racism based on the notion of racialized social systems is proposed, which is based on Fanon's notion of racism as a mental quirk.
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Chapter 6 Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of economic development and develop a framework for thinking about why economic institutions differ across countries.
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Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of economic development and develop a framework for thinking about why economic institutions differ across countries.
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

TL;DR: A list of abbreviations for the bus can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the California political economy, crime, croplands, and capitalism, and what is to be done.