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highlights the indelible mark of the exodus of Homo sapiens from Africa tens of thousands of years ago on the degree of …This essay explores the deepest roots of comparative economic development. It underscores the significance of … evolutionary processes since the Neolithic Revolution in shaping a society's endowment of fundamental traits, such as …
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Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide variations in the …A vibrant literature has emerged in recent years to explore the influences of human evolution and the genetic … composition of populations on the comparative economic performance of societies, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic …
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vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of … literature and examines the contribution of a recent hypothesis regarding the evolutionary origins of comparative economic …The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a …
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vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of … literature and examines the contribution of a recent hypothesis regarding the evolutionary origins of comparative economic …The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596149
This paper studies the relationship between patience and comparative development through a combination of reduced … sets of stylized facts. First, patience is strongly correlated with per capita income and the accumulation of physical …. Second, the magnitude of the patience elasticity strongly increases in the level of aggregation. To provide an interpretive …
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This paper studies the relationship between patience and comparative development through a combination of reduced … sets of stylized facts. First, patience is strongly correlated with both per capita income and the accumulation of physical …. Second, the quantitative magnitude of the patience elasticity strongly increases in the level of aggregation. To provide an …
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This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of … household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating … more realistic and empirically grounded behavioral assumptions and technological innovation and that the goal of the …
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This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of … household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating … more realistic and empirically grounded behavioral assumptions and technological innovation and that the goal of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010390395
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