Why Slave Economies Thwart Entrepreneurial Innovation

Tags: Capitalism, U.S. History, World History

10/20/2020 Lipton Matthews

In a slave economy, slave owners seek technological innovations that make slave labor more productive. But they also place inefficient and artificial limits on innovations that might change the established social order.

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Original Article: “Why Slave Economies Thwart Entrepreneurial Innovation“.

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