In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery: Was slavery economically negative, not only for the slaves but the slaveowners and/or slave societies in general? Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. A Fine coverage in Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss”.
Jeffrey Hummel (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) is an economics professor at San Jose State University, California. He is the author of Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men (1996) and the Deadweight Loss and the American Civil War (2012).
The full course https://www.atlassociety.org/course/slavery.
Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Private Property, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals