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7 sats \ 2 replies \ @Yermin 16 Apr \ parent \ on: The 1776 Revolution: We Owe Our Prosperity to Two Men from Glasgow (Matt Ridley) history econ

So your claim is: take away slave-grown cotton from the core textile industry, and nothing materially changes?

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7 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 16 Apr

yes.

What's so hard/objectionable/unacceptable about this? Slavery, as abhorrent an institution it is from our modern pow -- having been present absolutely everywhere in human history -- was economically inefficient, upheld by communal subsidies, and played an altogether minor (read: none) role in bring about the rich, modern world

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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @Yermin 16 Apr

And it wasn’t just cotton, slaves produced tobacco, sugar, rice, indigo. If all of that disappears, what replaces those outputs in your model?

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