1研讨论文
The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?
2主讲人
胡天霖（中经管2021级硕士生）
3时间
5月13日18:30-21:30
4线下地址
学术会堂712
5点评老师
王忏、明洋
6活动对象
创新发展学院、金融学院学生
7论文简介
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.
8主办单位
创新发展学院、金融学院联合主办
