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Property Rights, Warfare and the Neolithic Transition
Rowthorn, Robert; Seabright, Paul - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2010
This paper explains the multiple adoption of agriculture around ten thousand years ago, in spite of the fact that the … to defend, adoption may entail increased defense investments, and equilibrium consumption levels may decline as … off committing not to adopt while the initial productivity advantage of agriculture remained low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764899
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Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Poor
Hibbs Jr., Douglas A.; Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003
nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to sedentary agriculture, beginning about 10,000 years ago. The transition made possible the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771214
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Organisation de la guerre et du travail dans la tradition marxiste (1844-1939).
Alcouffe, A. - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les … - 1999
Marx attribuait a l'ensemble des activites liees a la guerre un grand role dans le developpement du mode de production capitaliste. En 1848 dans un tract Marx et Engels voient dans l'armee un moyen d'organiser le travail dans la societe. Plus tard, Engels verra dnas l'armee une pure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776468
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398551
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398594
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371915
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371916
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877698
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877727
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The Agricultural Roots of Autocracy and Democracy
Ang, James - 2018
This paper hypothesizes that inherent agricultural land productivity explains contemporary levels of autocracy and democracy. In particular, intermediate levels of productivity are associated with democracy, whereas a legacy of either low or high agricultural productivity is associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917877