Paul van Geest has a monthly column in het Nederlands dagblad. He is Professor of Theology and Economic Thought at the Faculty of Philosophy and his Chair is in part made possible by Erasmus School of Economics. This month he cites a research from Philip Hans Franses, Professor of Applied Econometrics and Professor of Marketing Research at Erasmus School of Economics, about the Atlantic slave trade.
Franses and his colleague Wilco van den Heuvel reconstructed missing data about the numbers of transported slaves. These numbers, according to van Geest, are like mirrors showing the dark sides of a nation. So he states the title of the research, aggregate Statistics on Trafficker-Destination Relations in the Atlantic Slave Trade, is dull. It would disguise the real meaning behind the found numbers. Hopefully in the future a better title will be chosen, with interdisciplinary research as a result.
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Het Nederlands Dagblad, 10 September 2019 (in Dutch).