ECON 452W Final: 452 final 2009
9 Jan 2019
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You should mention names of authors when possible. Some authors claim that population growth caused the transition to agriculture. Others say this cannot be true because population reaches an equilibrium level in the long run. How do dow, reed, and olewiler (2009) resolve this problem in their article "climate. Warfare has large costs in the form of deaths, injuries, and lost labor time. On the other hand, warfare was very common among the yanomamo, the tsembaga maring, and the central enga. In the paper by dow and reed (2009) called "the origins of inequality", the authors claim that better food production technology led to both higher population and greater inequality. Describe the main causal mechanisms in their theory, sketch the empirical evidence they use, and comment on the strengths and weaknesses of their framework. In chapter 14 of guns, germs, and steel, jared diamond discusses the origins of the state.
