The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development

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:	2017
Authors:	Ashraf, Quamrul ; Galor, Oded
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Subject:	comparative development \| human evolution \| natural selection \| genes \| race \| the "out of Africa" hypothesis \| genetic diversity

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 10474
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	879483520 [GVK] hdl:10419/161097 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10474 [RePEc]
Classification:	O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; N10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations. General, International, or Comparative ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative ; Z10 - Cultural Economics. General
Source:	EconStor

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