| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10843 |
| DP10843 Islam, Inequality and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development | |
| Alireza Naghavi; Stelios Michalopoulos; Giovanni Prarolo | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-09-27 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior by groups residing in the poorly endowed territories. We show that in such an environment it was mutually beneficial to institute an economic system of income redistribution featuring income transfers in return for safe passage to conduct trade. A commitment problem, however, rendered a merely static redistribution scheme unsustainable. Islam developed a set of dynamic redistributive rules that were self-enforcing, in regions where arid lands dominated the landscape. While such principles fostered the expansion of trade within the Muslim world they limited the accumulation of wealth by the commercial elite, shaping the economic trajectory of Islamic lands in the pre-industrial era. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth |
| 关键词 | Conflict Geography Inequality and land quality Islam Public good investment Religion Trade Wealth accumulation |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10843 |
| 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/539672 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alireza Naghavi,Stelios Michalopoulos,Giovanni Prarolo. DP10843 Islam, Inequality and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development. 2015. |
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