----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- I don't know about an 18th c. Cuban economist who described triangular trade, and would be interested in the answer, if there is one. In the 18th c., Malachi Postlethwayt and other mercantilists (e.g., Davenant, Gee, Dalby Thomas, William Wood) wrote of related matters. Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery covers much of this. More recently, papers by Darity (see AER, May, 1992) and Ronald Bailey, cite this literature. Not from Cuba, but from the Caribbean, but not from the 18th, but from the 20th, c., there are Eric Williams and others (Walter Rodney was from Guyana, writers from George Padmore to C. L. R. James and others) who have looked at or developed the 'triangular trade' thesis. Including also W. E. B. Du Bois from the late 19th c. Du Bois, of course, is from the U.S., not the Caribbean. As Bailey has shown, he did develop a triangular trade thesis in his doctoral dissertation, _The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870_, published as the first volume in the Harvard Historical Studies series in 1896. See Ronald Bailey, "'Out of Sight, Out of Mind': The Struggle of African American Intellectuals Against the Invisibility of the Slave[ry] Trade in World Economic History" in Thomas Boston (ed.): _A Different Vision: Race and Public Policy_, Vol. 2, London: Routledge, 1997. Mat Forstater ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]