Description: Further DetailsTitle: Buying FreedomCondition: NewSubtitle: The Ethics and Economics of Slave RedemptionISBN-10: 0691130108EAN: 9780691130101ISBN: 9780691130101Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/22/2007Description: If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil War America. In Buying Freedom, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl bring together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for the first comprehensive examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption. While recognizing the obvious virtue of the desire to buy the freedom of slaves, the contributors ask difficult and troubling questions: Does redeeming slaves actually increase the demand for--and so the number of--slaves? And what about cases where it is far from clear that redemption will improve the material condition, or increase the real freedom, of a slave?Buying Freedom includes essays by the editors and by Dean Karlan and Alan Krueger, Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau, Stanley Engerman, Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane, Jok Madut Jok, Ann McDougall, Lisa Cook, Margaret Kellow, John Stauffer, and Howard McGary.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 397gContributor: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Edited by), Martin Bunzl (Edited by), Kevin Bales (Foreword by)Genre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesAuthor: Kwame Anthony AppiahRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Buying Freedom
Title: Buying Freedom
Subtitle: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
ISBN-10: 0691130108
EAN: 9780691130101
ISBN: 9780691130101
Release Date: 07/22/2007
Release Year: 2007
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Kevin Bales (Foreword by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Buying Freedom : the Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Slavery, Christian Theology / Soteriology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Human Rights, History & Theory, General
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Author: Martin Bunzl
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Law, Religion, Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Perfect
