The macrogenoeconomics of comparative development

Quamrul H. Ashraf, Oded Galor

The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide variations in the composition of human traits. This essay surveys this literature and examines the contribution of a recent hypothesis regarding the evolutionary origins of comparative economic development, set forth in Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, to this important line of research.

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Year of publication:	February 2017
Authors:	Ashraf, Quamrul H. ; Galor, Oded
Publisher:	Munich : CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute
Subject:	comparative development \| human evolution \| natural selection \| genes \| race \| the "out of Africa" hypothesis \| genetic diversity \| Menschen \| Humans \| Anthropologie \| Anthropology \| Evolutionsökonomik \| Evolutionary economics

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 44 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	CESifo working papers. - München : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 2364-1428, ZDB-ID 2065232-X. - Vol. no. 6349
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/155591 [Handle]
Classification:	N10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations. General, International, or Comparative ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative ; O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Z10 - Cultural Economics. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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