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empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory … the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and … distance from the cradle of humankind to various settlements across the globe affected genetic diversity and has had a long …
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cross-country variation in genetic diversity by appealing to the "out of Africa" hypothesis of human origins to empirically … of its economic development. The hypothesis advanced and empirically examined in this paper suggests that there are …This research contributes to the understanding of human genetic diversity within a society as a significant determinant …
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The paper contributes to the debate on relative levels of living in the early modern world by estimating the income of … and probable range of income growth in Bengal before European colonization. The exercise yields two conclusions, (a … former conclusion is relevant to the discussion on the origins of international economic inequality, or ‘divergence’, and the …
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This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the … factors that have governed the pace of the transition from stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary …
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the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in … historical time series data and in contemporaneous cross-country panel data, including the bi-modal distribution of the … part of the observed differences in the timing of the take-off across countries and the worldwide density distribution of …
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This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and … economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This unified theory encompasses the observed evolution of population …, technology and income per capita in the long transition from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to sustained economic growth. The …
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consumption - is used by members of one sex to signal their unobservable characteristics valuable to members of the opposite sex …. It then goes on to show that the standard economics problem of utility maximisation is formally equivalent to the … standard biology problem of the maximisation of individual fitness, the ability to pass genes to future generations. …
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This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of … economic development and the evolution of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, the rise in income generated an …
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This Paper examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic … growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per … capita, technology, and population over the course of human history. Deciphering the underlying forces that triggered the …
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This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of … development, shedding new light on the sources of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The …-gatherer tribes to sedentary agricultural communities and ultimately to urban societies affected the nature of the environmental …
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