| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w4420 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 4420 |
| The Profitabality of Colonialism | |
| Herschel I. Grossman; Murat Iyigun | |
| 发表日期 | 1993-08-01 |
| 出版年 | 1993 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper develops an analytical framework for studying colonial investment from the perspective of neoclassical political economy. The distinguishing feature of colonial investment in this model is that the metropolitan government restricts the amount of investment in the colony in order to maximize the net profits earned in the colony. The model explicitly includes the threat of extralegal appropriative activities by the indigenous population in the colony. The analysis of this model identifies the conditions, where these conditions include both the technology of production and the technology of extralegal appropriation, that determine the profitability of colonialism. The analysis suggests why historically some countries but not others became colonies and why many colonies that were initially profitable subsequently become unprofitable and were abandoned. The model also has implications for the amount of investment. the allocation of resources between productive and appropriative activities, and the distribution of income in colonies. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; International Factor Mobility |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w4420 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/561792 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Herschel I. Grossman,Murat Iyigun. The Profitabality of Colonialism. 1993. |
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| w4420.pdf（137KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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