ECON 452W Final: final 2010
9 Jan 2019
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You should mention names of authors when possible. Explain the theory about the origins of agriculture provided by dow, reed, and olewiler (2009). You don"t need to use any math, just clearly describe the sequence of events and the economic logic involved. "warfare is costly due to deaths, injuries, and time taken away from food production. It has no overall benefit to society because it merely redistributes existing resources. Thus warfare in small-scale societies is not consistent with rational economic behavior and can only be explained by non-economic factors. " Discuss. (a) most foraging societies do not have systematic inequality, while agricultural societies often do. (b) on the northwest coast of north america, there were foraging societies that had significant inequality. Allen (1997) believes that the rapid rise of the state in ancient egypt was triggered by the arrival of agricultural technology from southwest asia.
