The macrogenoeconomics of comparative development

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

The importance of evolutionary forces for comparative economic performance across societies has been the focus of a vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of anatomically modern humans in generating worldwide variations in the composition of human traits. This essay surveys this literature and examines the contribution of a recent hypothesis regarding the evolutionary origins of comparative economic development, set forth in Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, to this important line of research.

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Year of publication:	January 2017
Authors:	Ashraf, Quamrul ; Galor, Oded
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA
Subject:	comparative development \| human evolution \| natural selection \| genes \| race \| the "out of Africa" hypothesis \| genetic diversity \| Menschen \| Humans \| Anthropologie \| Anthropology \| Evolutionsökonomik \| Evolutionary economics