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In Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th–17th Centuries: A Survey, Henryk Szlajfer describes the ways New Christians and Jews contributed to the rise of the Atlantic economy by developing non-corporate world-wide trade networks, their involvement in the New World sugar plantations, and the role they played until mid-17th century in the slave trade. He argues that persecutions of New Christians by the Inquisition were a critical variable in explaining the destruction of this unique example of early modern entrepreneurship.

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Henryk Szlajfer is Professor Emeritus at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University. He has published on Latin American economic history, including Economic Nationalism and Globalization: Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe (Brill, 2012). He also co-edited Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th–18th Centuries: Collection of Essays of Marian Małowist (Brill, 2010).

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