The origin of the state: land productivity or appropriability?
Mostra el registre complet Registre parcial de l'ítem
- dc.contributor.author Mayshar, Joram
- dc.contributor.author Moav, Omer
- dc.contributor.author Pascali, Luigi
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-31T07:16:42Z
- dc.date.available 2023-07-31T07:16:42Z
- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.description.abstract The conventional theory about the origin of the state is that the adoption of farming increased land productivity, which led to the production of food surplus. This surplus was a prerequisite for the emergence of tax-levying elites and, eventually, states. We challenge this theory and propose that hierarchy arose as a result of the shift to dependence on appropriable cereal grains. Our empirical investigation, utilizing multiple data sets spanning several millennia, demonstrates a causal effect of the cultivation of cereals on hierarchy, without finding a similar effect for land productivity. We further support our claims with several case studies.
- dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
- dc.identifier.citation Mayshar J, Moav O, Pascali L. The origin of the state: land productivity or appropriability?. J Polit Econ. 2022;130(4):1091-144. DOI: 10.1086/718372
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/718372
- dc.identifier.issn 0022-3808
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57736
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher University of Chicago Press
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Political Economy. 2022;130(4):1091-144.
- dc.rights © University of Chicago Press http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ET/home.html
- dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.subject.other Productes agrícoles excedents
- dc.subject.other Propietat
- dc.title The origin of the state: land productivity or appropriability?
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion