Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World - Couverture rigide

Dow, Gregory K.; Reed, Clyde G.

 
9781108839907: Economic Prehistory: Six Transitions That Shaped The World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1108839908 ISBN 13 : 9781108839907
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Around 15,000 years ago, almost all humans lived in small mobile foraging bands. By about 5,000 years ago, the first city-states had appeared. This radical transformation in human society laid the foundations for the modern world. We use economic logic and archaeological evidence to explain six key elements in this revolution: sedentism, agriculture, inequality, warfare, cities, and states. In our approach the ultimate cause of these events was climate change. We show how shifts in climate interacted with geography to drive technological innovation and population growth. The accumulation of population at especially rich locations led to creation of group property rights over land, stratification into elite and commoner classes, and warfare over land among rival elites. This set the stage for urbanization based on manufacturing or military defense and for elite-controlled states based on taxation. Our closing chapter shows how these developments eventually resulted in contemporary global civilization.

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À propos des auteurs

Gregory K. Dow is Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University.

Clyde G. Reed is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108839908
ISBN 13 
9781108839907
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
425
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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