The Economics of the Frontier Conquest and Settlement /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Findlay, Ronald (Συγγραφέας), Lundahl, Mats (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Θέματα: Economic history.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Economic History.; Regional/Spatial Science.

This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers – conceptual, theoretical and empirical – and introduce the f...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. Lampião and the Colonels: On the Political Economy of Banditry
• Epilogue: Frontiers – Theory and History.