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Ministry of Ideas

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The Efficiency of Slavery

Economic historian Robert William Fogle struggled to understand efficiency. He originally conceived of it as a moral good, by and of and by itself. But he had to decouple efficiency in virtue and realize that even an efficient system wasn't necessarily a virtuous one.

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