| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27774 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27774 |
| The Fractured-Land Hypothesis | |
| Jesús Fernández-Villaverde; Mark Koyama; Youhong Lin; Tuan-Hwee Sng | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-09-07 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Patterns of state formation 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 polycentrism. 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 topography alone is sufficient, but not necessary, to explain polycentrism in Europe and unification in China. Differences in land productivity, in particular the existence of a core region of high land productivity in northern China, also deliver the same result. We discuss how our results map into observed historical outcomes, assess how robust our findings are, and analyze the predictions of our model for Africa and the Americas. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; History ; Other History ; Other ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27774 |
| 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/585445 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jesús Fernández-Villaverde,Mark Koyama,Youhong Lin,et al. The Fractured-Land Hypothesis. 2020. |
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