>I think there is a footnote someplace in _Capital_ in which Marx says >that the economists blamed the U.S. Civil War for a slump that was >coming anyhow.
In his POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE COTTON SOUTH, Gavin Wright argues that the prosperity of the slaveowners before the Civil War would have ended anyway, since the slump in cotton demand was coming anyhow. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
