On the Origin of the State

Joram Mayshar, Omer Moav, Luigi Pascali. 2021. “The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?” Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy.

Check the authors’ websites for the posted paper:
https://en.economics.huji.ac.il/peopl...
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economi...
https://www.luigipascali.com/

Complex hierarchies and states emerged after the Neolithic Revolution. How did the adoption of agriculture give rise to the state, and why did states emerge in only some regions?


About this channel:
econimate® is a YouTube channel aimed at making economics research accessible and engaging. What questions are economists asking, how are they tackling them, and how does this research help us understand the world around us?

http://www.econimate.com/
  / econimate  

Created by Hoai-Luu Nguyen

Video uses “WritingMarker” by fastson licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...