Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - Department of Economics, Tufts University
systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The teory argues that this particular type of geography (i … performance. It suggests that the unequal distribution of land endowments conferred differential gains from trade across regions … accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant religious …