The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in the Eighteenth Century: A Comment on the Williams Thesis

1972/01/01 by Stanley L. Engerman · 2 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Historical Economic and Social Studies

paper · doi:10.2307/3113341

Abstract

Professor Engerman constructs estimates of relevant data in order to test the assertion that profits from the slave trade provided the capital which financed the Industrial Revolution in England.

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