Mark Thornton on How Government Propped Up Slavery in the American South

Tags: Interventionism, U.S. History

10/27/2019 Robert P. Murphy

Economic historian Mark Thornton has published several peer-reviewed articles on the economics of slavery in the American South. In this episode, he and Bob Murphy discuss the various ways in which government intervention propped up slavery and masked its inefficiency.

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