Slavery and Information
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5752787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe Dari‐mattiacci (0000-0001-7869-9825, Tinbergen Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-116 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002205071300003x |
| OpenAlex | W3125495466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 98 |
This article shows how asymmetric information shaped slavery by determining the likelihood of manumission. A theoretical model explains the need to offer positive incentives to slaves working in occupations characterized by a high degree of asymmetric information. As a result, masters freed (and, more generally, rewarded) slaves who performed well. The model's implications are then tested against the available evidence: both in Rome and in the Atlantic world, slaves with high asymmetric information tasks had greater chances of manumission. The analysis also sheds light on the master's choices of carrots versus sticks and of labor versus slavery."Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only."Adam Smith,The Wealth of Nations1"[N]or because they are slaves do they less than free men need the lure of hope and happy expectation."Xenophon,The Economist2
Adam smith · Economics · Incentive · Information asymmetry · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Work (physics) · Corruption and Economic Development · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Engineering · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · History · Law
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Slaves and masters in the Roman Empire
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Time on the cross
Società romana e produzione schiavistica
The Early Roman Empire
Business Managers in Ancient Rome
The Early Roman Empire
Resisting slavery at Rome
The Early Roman Empire
Slavery in the Roman Republic
Slavery in the late Roman world
Early Rome and Italy
Slave labour and Roman society
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Slavery in the Atlantic Islands and the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic World
Slavery and economy in the Greek world
The Late Republic
Emancipation schemes
The Roman slave supply
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The Early Roman Empire
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The Freedman in the Roman World
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Diverse Good Causes
Machines, Power and the Ancient Economy
A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire
The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South
Slavery, Incentives, and Manumission
Slavery and Supervision in Comparative Perspective
The Economics of Slavery and Other Studies in Econometric History
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The regularity of manumission at Rome
Mentalités et choix économiques des Romains
Diverse Good Causes
Depersonalization of Business in Ancient Rome
Capitalism and Freedom
The Athenian Nation
Approaching freedom
Finances, figures and fiction
The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom
From Slavery to Freedom
Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
The Optimal Utilization of Slaves
Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery
The Price of Freedom
The Labor Market of the Early Roman Empire
Manumission in Colonial Buenos Aires, 1776-1810
Slave and Citizen. The Negro in the Americas
The Manumission of Slaves in Colonial Brazil
From Slavery to Freedom
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Social Shocks and Slave Social Mobility
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |