Weapons, intelligence and property rights

Alvaro Montenegro

Colombian Economic Journal, 2004, vol. 2, issue 1, 33-44

Abstract: The evolution of human intelligence and property rights is positively related to weapons and military technology. Weapons allowed males to establish property rights over females, initiating a positive feedback loop between weapons and intelligence through natural selection. Weapons and military technology then extended property rights over land and produce making agriculture possible. The first economic revolution then was the discovery of weapons, not agriculture

Keywords: evolutionary approach; innovation and invention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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