Horan, Richard D.; Shogren, Jason F.; Bulte, Erwin H. - In: Resource and Energy Economics 33 (2011) 2, pp. 426-439
In this paper, we develop a paleoeconomic model of the co-evolution of economic specialization and encephalization--the common physiological measure of intelligence as reflected by brain mass relative to total body mass. Our economic analysis links ecological and social intelligence theories of...
