The Economics of the Frontier: Conquest and Settlement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349956371)

Introduction: Frontiers and Empires.- 1. Frontiers and Empires in Historical Perspective.- 2. Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries and Frontiers.- 3. Towards a Model of Territorial Expansion and the Limits of Empire.- 4. Demographic Shocks and the Factor Proportions Model: From the Plague of Justinian to the Black Death.- 5. The First Globalization Episode: The Creation of the Mongol Empire or the Economics of Chinggis Khan.- 6. Towards a Factor Proportions Approach to Economic History: Population, Precious Metals, and Prices from the Black Death to the Price Revolution.- 7. International Trade and Factor Mobility with an Endogenous Land Frontier: Some General Equilibrium Consequences of Christopher Columbus.- 8. Natural Resources, 'Vent-for-Surplus' and the Staples Theory.- 9. Resource-Led Growth - A Long-Term Perspective: The Relevance of the 1870-1914 Experience for Today's Development Economies.- 10. Lampi縊 and the Colonels: On the Political Economy of Banditry.- Epilogue: Frontiers - Theory and History.

Author: Ronald Findlay, Mats Lundahl
ISBN-10: 1349956376
ISBN-13: 9781349956371
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2018
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.94d