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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
main capital form in economy evolves from land to physical capital and then to human capital, which enables their … development path from monarchy to elite ruling and finally to full suffrage. When it is too costly for any group of factor owners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365249
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development
Huang, Fali - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2006
. The main capital form in economy evolves from land to physical capital and then to human capital, which enables the … political development path from monarchy to elite ruling and finally to full suffrage. When it is too costly for any group of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005482011
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy
Huang, Fali - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2007
. The main production factor in economy evolves from land to physical capital and then to human capital, which enables their … development path from monarchy to oligarchy and ?finally to democracy with full suffrage. When it is too costly for any group of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005006760
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development from Monarchy to Democracy
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
. The main production factor in economy evolves from land to physical capital and then to human capital, which enables their … development path from monarchy to oligarchy and .nally to democracy with full surage. When it is too costly for any group of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365197
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The Coevolution of Economic and Political Development
Huang, Fali - 2006
. The main capital form in economy evolves from land to physical capital and then to human capital, which enables their … development path from monarchy to elite ruling and finally to full suffrage. When it is too costly for any group of factor owners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056680
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The political economy of rural property rights and the persistence of the dual economy
Fergusson, Leopoldo - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 167-181
, there is broad consensus that individual, well-specified and secure property rights over land improve economic outcomes. If … property rights in land are so beneficial, why are they not adopted more widely? I put forward a theory according to which …
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The Political Economy of Rural Property Rights and the Persistence of the Dual Economy
Fergusson, Leopoldo - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2012
If property rights in land are so beneficial, why are they not adopted more widely? I propose a theory based on the … property rights and land in the hands of peasants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763871
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Postcolonial Imaginaries : Alternative Development or Alternatives to Development?
Mahmud, Tayyab - 2009
This review essay critically interrogates the discourse and practice of development. It is argued that models of alternative development remain imprisoned in the ontological categories of the development project, an ideological and institutional devise to consolidate the hegemony of the West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206371
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Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch: Theory and Evidence
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
. Using exogenous cross-country variations in land productivity and the timing of the Neolithic Revolution, the analysis … demonstrates that, in accordance with the Malthusian theory, societies that were characterized by higher land productivity and an …
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The farmer, the blue-collar, and the monk : understanding economic development through saturations of demands and non-homothetic productivity gains
Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André; Le Bris, David - 2018 - This draft: April 9, 2018
To explain the process of development historically documented, we consider a model with three economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of agricultural and manufactured goods. Our parsimonious...
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