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Calculation and Morality. The Costs of Slavery and the Price of Liberation (18th-19th Centuries)

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Adam Smith was one of the first to calculate the economic impracticability of slavery, pointing out at the same time that the morality of the slave in no way disposes him to labor with full efficiency. So how do we explain that, in the absence of economic profitability, slavery had been maintained for so long by enlightened Europe? Smith believed that the answer lies not so much in economics as in culture, or more precisely, in the will to dominate that characterizes European man. It is this tension between economics and ethics that is the focus of French economists Caroline Ouden-Bastide and Philippe Steiner, who co-authored Calculus and Morality (2015) and are recognized experts on both the economics of slave labor and the related political-economic debates that characterized French intellectual life until the complete abolition of slavery in 1848.
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