@arielronid It’s quite an abstract argument, although I’m not well versed in the economics of externalities. They’re drawing a parallel between slavery and pollution, which is something that Robert Wright also does here: https://t.co/66v51nLxlc
@corymassimino Well if everyone would just read this libertarian's book on the subject, we'd all have a 20-point scale for adjudging the degree of slavery-ness/unfreedom to base discussions upon. But nooooo let's all just throw ignorance around https://t.c
"Slavery was, and still is in parts of the world, a legalized robbery." E.C. Harwood, “The Full Significance of Freedom,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 4, 2 (Jan. 1945), 187. Compare to https://t.co/wM7EW5rVPw
@ReubenLoffman The Poverty of Slavery, How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy Succinct but historically and geographically comprehensive. Uses the theory of externalities in lieu of standard neoclassical analysis https://t.co/srABokGjb9