[ExI] Belief in Market Efficiency

[Stefano Vaj]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, painlord2k at libero.it
<painlord2k at libero.it> wrote:
> History could show how free market is a mortal enemy of slavery.

This may be true at least in the sense that societies based on slavery
have historically performed very poorly, even though their conquerors
and defeaters only too often ended by maintaining the system in place
with some minor changes once installed in the place of the previous
rulers...

> Thank to the hammering of the Christian church for a few centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West.

Mmhhh, here as you know I have more than a few doubts. The diffusion
of slavery in the Latin and European economic and cultural space
increased proportionally with religious, cultural, and social
influences coming from the middle east. In other continents, such as
North America or Sub-saharian Africa, organised large-scale slavery
arrived together with monotheism.

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Stefano Vaj