Harvest sharing in hunter-gatherer societies takes the form of implicit taxes on renewable resources the proceeds of which are redistributed among all members of the community. It is argued that these taxes represent an evolutionary response to the dynamics of large game hunting. The implicit...

A general equilibrium model is presented where a small number of resource users share part of their harvests with each other. As the productivity of resource harvest is stochastic, the sharing rule can be interpreted as an informal insurance contract. As individual labour inputs are...

The model presented in this paper distinguishes an industrial and an agricultural sector within a developing economy, which interact predominantly through the goods market. Investment determines saving through the Keynesian mechanism of effective demand. Environmental degradation results from...