Hunting for rents
The economics of slaving in pre-colonial Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3381926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E W Evans (University of Hull), David Richardson (0000-0002-1864-3907, University of Hull) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 665 |
| Publication date | 1995-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2598129 |
| OpenAlex | W4242172224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 35 |
Great wrong and unchristian thievery and robbery are committed all over the world by merchants. . . . Princes have become the companions of robbers. For they hang the thieves, who have stolen a gulden or half a gulden, but they associate with those, who rob all the world and steal with greater assurance than all others, so that the proverb remains true: big thieves hang little thieves; and as the Roman senator Cato said: mean thieves lie in prisons and stocks, but public thieves are clothed in gold and silks. (Martin Luther, 1524, cited in Marx, Capital, III, p. 326n)
Archaeology · Colonialism · Economic rent · Economics · Geography · Market economy · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical Economic and Social Studies
The Causal History of Africa
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Social Stratification on the Gold Coast
Climate and the slave trade
Cultures of Exchange
The New Economic History of Africa
The Business Firm in Africa
On the Causes of the A frican Slave Trade
Reciprocal Comparison and African History
Slave prices from succession and bankruptcy sales in Mauritius, 1825–1827
Connected Sahel-Sahara in Turmoil
Economic modelling of price differences in the slave trade between the Central Sudan and the coast
Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679-1704
Introduction
The biological standard of living in early nineteenth-century West Africa
Resources, techniques, and strategies south of the Sahara
Royal Monopoly and Private Enterprise in the Atlantic Trade
The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society
The Commonsense of Political Economy
The Fishers of Men
Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay
Evidence on English/African terms of trade in the eighteenth century
Externalities, Factor Proportions and the Level of Exploitation of Free Access Resources
The Historical Approach to Rent and Price Theory
British Abolition and its Impact on Slave Prices Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783–1850
Prices of Slaves in West and West‐central Africa
The Import of Firearms into West Africa in the Eighteenth Century
The significance of Drought, Disease and Famine in the agriculturally marginal zones of West-Central Africa
The Enslavement of Koelle's Informants
Gold, Assortments and the Trade Ounce
La Traite des Esclaves noirs en Libye au XVIIIe Siècle
The Import of Firearms into West Africa 1750–1807
The Dahomean Middleman System, 1727–c. 1818
Sex Ratio, Age and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Measuring the Immeasurable
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700–1810
The African Slave Supply Response
Rome and the Greek World
Competing Markets for Male and Female Slaves
Preferences for Slaves in Colonial America
Fluctuations in Sex and Age Ratios in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1663-1864
The First Economic Revolution
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,87 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2025 (30) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |