Kampanelis, Sotiris; Elizalde, Aldo; Ioannides, Yannis M. - 2023
This paper examines the long-term economic impacts of the adoption of local knowledge during European colonisation. We … use the case of Australia, where Aboriginal knowledge of the landscape was integral to colonial exploration and settlement …. To quantify the effects of this knowledge, we construct a newly digitised and georeferenced dataset of trade routes …