| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP15209 |
| 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 |
| URL | https://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 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde,Mark Koyama,Youhong Lin,et al. DP15209 The Fractured-Land Hypothesis. 2020. |
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