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Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism with Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

Economics Detective Radio

CHAPTER

The Malthusian Trap

Baptist says cotton production in the american south, and i the slave system that produced it, was. really important to the wording that i think baptist uses getting out of the malthusian trap. So like economic growth, industrialization, it's sort of one sector explanation of a big portion of that. You couldn't have had cotton potection without slavery. The increase in productivity, according to them, was based on torture. And so tortuous a driving force. I need to qualify that Ori's not just torture is a drivingforce. But i think he, as tortu was oleter, was the te driving force the got us out of them

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