Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … economic performance. It suggests that the unequal distribution of land endowments conferred di¤erential gains from trade …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant …