institutional change, whether it be Esther Boserup's declining fallow period, modern crop varieties, or the specialization pyramid …, and specialization imply that modest population pressure does not necessarily exert downward pressure on wages. As … agricultural growth stimulates industrialization, the non-convexities of specialization become ever more compact. The combination …

The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …

In this paper I theoretically argue that people weigh specialization gains against trade costs when they decide whether …