Animals and the prehistoric origins of economic development

The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation

Ideen A Riahi

European Review of Economic History, 2021, vol. 25, issue 2, 247-279

Abstract: This paper revisits the macro-level relationship between human genetic variation (genetic distance and diversity) and economic development. If other continents were biogeographically more similar to Eurasia, their populations’ capacities to ward off the adverse effects of European colonization would have been much higher and, thus, their economies considerably more prosperous today. At the continental scale, genetic differences between people do not matter for comparative development.

Date: 2021
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