An Economics Reading List

Race, Slavery, and Economics

Becker, Gary, The Economics of Discrimination

Engerman, Stanley, (ed.), The Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor (Making of Modern Freedom)

Fogel, Robert and Stanley Engerman, Time On the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Fogel, Robert, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

Higgs, Robert, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914

Levy, David and Sandra Peart, The Secret History of the Dismal Science, by David Levy and Sandra Peart.

Brief Review of this series of articles.

Solow, Barbara and Stanley Engerman, (eds.), British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams

Sowell, Thomas, Race and Economics