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Terms of trade and current account dynamics : a methodological critique
Galor, Oded - In: International economic review 35 (1994) 4, pp. 1001-1014
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Evolution and the growth process : natural selection of entrepreneurial traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopulos, Stelios - 2012
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530758
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Evolution and the growth process : natural selection of entrepreneurial traits
Galor, Oded - 2011
This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939187
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Isolation and development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2009
This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897826
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Isolation and Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2012
This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202436
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture : comparative economic development ; insights from unified growth theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897830
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2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture - Comparative Economic Development : Insights from Unified Growth Theory
Galor, Oded - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199587
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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth
Galor, Oded - 2005
The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069583
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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2007
industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of … innovation and their ability in fostering industrialization, the proposed theory suggests that the desirable degree of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051236
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Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2004
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 … theory suggests that prolonged economic stagnation prior to the transition to sustained growth stimulated natural selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144124