Vient de paraître Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa. The case of the Gold Coast de Klas Rönnbäck chez Routledge

Vient de paraître Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa. The case of the Gold Coast de Klas Rönnbäck chez Routledge, "Perspectives in Economic and Social History", 2016, 210 p. ISBN : 9781848935785 Prix : 95 £.

"Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development."

Klas Rönnbäck is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.