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The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … into slavery, to a force behind the transition from slavery to free labor. Our model also explains several other historical …
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We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...
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THE CONCEPT OF AN INDUSTRY IS IMPORTANT FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. HERE, WE DEFINE SUGAR INDUSTRY AS GROUP OF FIRMS … PRODUCING SUGAR THAT ARE CLOSE SUBSTITUTES BY THE USE OF IDENTICAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND RAW MATERIALS. HOWEVER, SUGAR … NIGERIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY HAVE NOT INDUCED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND THUS A MORE URGENT ATTENTION WAS NEEDED FROM THE POLICY …
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During the six decades which encompass state planning of the sugar and alcohol industry in Brazil, production quotas …
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On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...
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In August 2002, the Commission was asked to look at the economic and social importance of the different industries in the Great Barrier Reef and its catchment. The Commission also would evaluate the costs and benefits of actions to address declining water quality which currently threatens the...
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The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … into slavery, to a force behind the transition from slavery to free labor. Our model also explains several other historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125652
program can slow the flow of people into the actual state of slavery, but at the same time can increase the number of people …
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Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...
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We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076730