| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10742 |
| DP10742 Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy | |
| Joram Mayshar; Omer Moav; Zvika Neeman; Luigi Pascali | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-08-02 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We propose that the development of social hierarchy following the Neolithic Revolution was an outcome of the ability of the emergent elite to appropriate cereal crops from farmers and not a result of land productivity, as argued by conventional theory. We argue that cereals are easier to appropriate than roots and tubers, and that regional differences in the suitability of land for different crops explain therefore differences in the formation of hierarchy and states. A simple model illustrates our main theoretical argument. Our empirical investigation shows that land suitability for cereals relative to suitability for tubers explains the formation of hierarchical institutions and states, whereas land productivity does not. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History ; Macroeconomics and Growth ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Geography Hierarchy Institutions State capacity |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10742 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539573 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joram Mayshar,Omer Moav,Zvika Neeman,et al. DP10742 Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy. 2015. |
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