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Persona, Homo, Res: Building a Boundary in Early Modern European Legal Thought

open access: yesRechtsgeschichte - Legal History
According to Roman law the same human being, the servus, can be understood as res mancipi or as persona, being part of the different kinds of persons described in Justinian’s Institutiones.
Carlo Bersani
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Whose was the Fifteenth-century Manor Court?

open access: yesJahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
As part of a wider literature challenging the notion that many lords engaged in extensive surplus extraction, a recent study focused on inland Flanders has argued that we need to decouple seigneuries, the institutions which structured lordship on the ...
Gibbs Spike
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Was the Korean slave market efficient? [PDF]

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Over the decades, the traditional condemnation of slavery has been based not only on philosophical argumentation and moral values, but also on the conjecture that slavery was inefficient.
Brezis, Elise S., Kim, Heeho
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Was Serfdom Good for the Economy?

open access: yesJahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Some recent theories have sought to rehabilitate serfdom, postulating that it could have been economically beneficial because lords used their institutional power to address pre-modern market failures.
Ogilvie Sheilagh
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Peasant economy in the edebate on Japanese capitalismf: Tenancy contract facing the eTurning pointf [PDF]

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Japanese economy was losing its stability in the interwar period. Faced with the challenge, Moritaro Yamada gave an understanding that the stability of Japanese political economy before the First World War had been maintained by paternalistic ...
Masaki Nakabayashi
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1807-2007: Over 200 years of campaigning against slavery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Kaye, Mike
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