Rowthorn, Robert and Seabright, Paul (2010) Property Rights, Warfare and the Neolithic Transition. TSE Working Paper, n. 10-207, Toulouse
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Abstract
This paper explains the multiple adoption of agriculture around ten thousand years ago, in spite of the fact that the first farmers suffered worse health and nutrition than their hunter gatherer predecessors. If output is harder for farmers to defend, adoption may entail increased defense investments, and equilibrium consumption levels may decline as agricultural productivity increases over a significant range, before eventually increasing thereafter. Agricultural adoption may have been a prisoners’ dilemma in that adoption was individually attractive even though all groups would have been better off committing not to adopt while the initial productivity advantage of agriculture remained low.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Language: | English |
Date: | November 2010 |
Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | agriculture, defense, property rights, contest functions, Neolithic transition |
JEL Classification: | D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances N30 - General, International, or Comparative N40 - General, International, or Comparative O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O40 - General Q10 - General |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2012 06:03 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 15:36 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:23846 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/3534 |