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来源IDDP15209
DP15209 The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde; Mark Koyama; Youhong Lin; Tuan-Hwee Sng
发表日期2020-08-27
出版年2020
语种英语
摘要Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that ``fractured land'' was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms of topographical features and the location of productive agricultural land to quantitatively gauge the effects of ``fractured land'' on state formation in Eurasia. We find that either topography or productive land alone is sufficient to account for China's recurring political unification and Europe's persistent political fragmentation. The existence of a core region of high land productivity in Northern China plays a central role in our simulations. We discuss how our results map into observed historical outcomes and assess how robust our findings are.
主题Monetary Economics and Fluctuations
关键词China Europe Great divergence State capacity Political fragmentation Political centralization
URLhttps://cepr.org/publications/dp15209
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/544180
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Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde,Mark Koyama,Youhong Lin,et al. DP15209 The Fractured-Land Hypothesis. 2020.
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