{"title":"Multiple steady statehood: the roles of productive and extractive capacities.","authors":"Nils-Petter Lagerlöf","doi":"10.1007/s10887-021-09188-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-021-09188-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper proposes a model of statehood, defined as elite extraction of resources from a subject population. Different from most of the existing literature, the size of the subject population evolves endogenously in a Malthusian fashion, and the elite take into account the effects on future population levels when taxing the current population. The elite can spend extracted resources by investing in productive and extractive capacities. Productive capacity increases the size of the pie, while extractive capacity makes it easier for the elite to tax it. Together-but not each on its own-these two types of investment can give rise to multiple steady-state equilibria, such that one steady state has both a higher rate of extraction, and higher population density and output, than the other steady state. The model can also account for a positive empirical relationship between land productivity and state antiquity among countries with relatively late state development.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10887-021-09188-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"26 2","pages":"113-152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10887-021-09188-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39667053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legacies of inequality: the case of Brazil","authors":"Evan Wigton-Jones","doi":"10.1007/s10887-020-09184-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-020-09184-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"1 1","pages":"455 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79842391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Private equity and growth","authors":"Boyan Jovanovic, Sai Ma, P. Rousseau","doi":"10.1007/s10887-022-09208-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09208-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"77 1","pages":"315 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91095781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Was the post-1870 fertility transition a key contributor to growth in the West in the twentieth century?","authors":"J. Madsen, M. Islam, Xueli Tang","doi":"10.1007/s10887-020-09183-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-020-09183-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"23 1","pages":"431 - 454"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80494606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Beck, Robin Döttling, T. Lambert, Mathijs A. Van Dijk
{"title":"Liquidity creation, investment, and growth","authors":"T. Beck, Robin Döttling, T. Lambert, Mathijs A. Van Dijk","doi":"10.1007/s10887-022-09217-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09217-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"3 1","pages":"297-336"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88136768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing collectivism: irrigation, group conformity and technological divergence","authors":"Johannes C. Buggle","doi":"10.1007/s10887-020-09178-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-020-09178-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"137 1","pages":"147 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86279056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The power of religion","authors":"Jeanet Sinding Bentzen, Gunes Gokmen","doi":"10.1007/s10887-022-09214-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09214-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"2021 1","pages":"45-78"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84012830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Losing your dictator: firms during political transition","authors":"Felipe González, M. Prem","doi":"10.1007/s10887-020-09176-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-020-09176-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"29 1","pages":"227 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76760243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islam and human capital in historical Spain","authors":"Francesco Cinnirella, Alireza Naghavi, G. Prarolo","doi":"10.1007/s10887-022-09220-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09220-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Growth","volume":"32 1","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75112284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}