[ExI] Belief in Market Efficiency

[painlord2k at libero.it]

Il 31/01/2009 2.49, Damien Broderick ha scritto:
> At 03:16 PM 1/30/2009 -0700, Thomas wrote contra regulation:
>
>> Free market traders with education, enlightenment and refinement
>> (civilized) have the advantage over savages.
>
> And, until 150 years ago, often owned them as chattels. (Or were
> those not free market traders?)

Not exactly true.

 From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania
> Slavery in Mauritania is an entrenched phenomenon the national
> government has repeatedly tried to abolish, banning the practice in
> 1905, 1981, and August 2007.[1][2] The descendants of black Africans
>  abducted into slavery now live in Mauritania as "black Moors" or
> haratin and partially still serve the "white Moors", or bidhan, as
> slaves.
>
> The number of slaves in the country was not known exactly, but is was
> estimated to be up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20% of the
> population [3][4]. Kevin Bales believes that the percentage of slaves
> was the highest in the world.
>
> Mauritanian organizations like El Hor (translated as "free man") and
>  SOS Esclaves (meaning "SOS Slaves" in French) work against slavery.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Sudan
> Since 1995, international rights organizations such as Human Rights
> Watch and CASMAS have reported that slavery in Sudan is a common
> fate of captives in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Pro-government
> militias have been known to raid non-Muslim southern villages
> (particularly those of the Dinka) and loot them both for property and
> for slaves.[1][2] According to the Rift Valley Institute's Sudan
> Abductee Database
>
> , over 11,000 people were abducted in 20 years of slave-raiding in
> southern Sudan.[3] SudanActivism.com mentions that hundreds of
> thousands have been abducted into slavery, fled, or are otherwise
> unaccounted for in a second genocide in southern Sudan.[4] According
> to the American Anti-Slavery Group, black Africans in southern Sudan
> have been abducted for centuries in the Arab slave trade, but the
> slave raids by militia armed by the federal government of Sudan
> increased significantly after the 1989 military coup led by Field
> Marshal Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, who is the current president of
> Sudan.[5]

So, apparently not only the "civilized", "free market traders" used the
slavery, but also the uncivilized.

Like many native americans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_indians
> Slavery existed among Native Americans before it was introduced by
> the Europeans, although it was unlike chattel slavery. In oral
> tradition, for instance, Cherokees saw slavery as the result of
> failure in warfare, and as a temporary status pending adoption or
> release.[16] As the US Constitution and the laws of several states
> permitted slavery, Native Americans were legally allowed to continue
> owning slaves, including those brought from Africa by Europeans. The
> Cherokee tribe had the most members who held black slaves, more than
> any Native American tribe.[17]

And I suppose I don't need to remember that africans were sold by other 
africans to Europeans (for working in North and South America as slaves) 
and to the Arabs (for the same reasons only to the other side of Africa).

And I don't need to remember you that many Europeans were captured and 
sold as slaves by the Arabs (probably a few millions in a couple of 
centuries) until the 1700.

We can say that also savages were able (and probably are able) to buy 
civilized people as slaves.

Mirco