LEADER 03814nam 22005415 450 001 9910151578403321 005 20251030100520.0 010 $a9781137602374 010 $a1137602376 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-60237-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951906 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-60237-4 035 $a(OCoLC)964293357 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4745457 035 $a(Perlego)3506436 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951906 100 $a20161117d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|nnn||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Economics of the Frontier $eConquest and Settlement /$fby Ronald Findlay, Mats Lundahl 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9781137602367 311 08$a1137602368 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Frontiers and Empires -- 1. Frontiers and Empires in Historical Perspective -- 2. Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries and Frontiers -- 3. Towards a Model of Territorial Expansion and the Limits of Empire -- 4. Demographic Shocks and the Factor Proportions Model: From the Plague of Justinian to the Black Death -- 5. The First Globalization Episode: The Creation of the Mongol Empire or the Economics of Chinggis Khan -- 6. Towards a Factor Proportions Approach to Economic History: Population, Precious Metals, and Prices from the Black Death to the Price Revolution -- 7. International Trade and Factor Mobility with an Endogenous Land Frontier: Some General Equilibrium Consequences of Christopher Columbus -- 8. Natural Resources, 'Vent-for-Surplus' and the Staples Theory -- 9. Resource-Led Growth ? A Long-Term Perspective: The Relevance of the 1870?1914 Experience for Today's Development Economies -- 10. Lampião and the Colonels: On the Political Economy of Banditry -- Epilogue: Frontiers ? Theory and History. 330 $aThis book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers ? conceptual, theoretical and empirical ? and introduce the fundamental theoretical model for extending frontiers which is drawn on throughout the book. The authors use this theoretical apparatus by applying it to a number of historical cases. These include the division of the European territory between the Byzantine Empire, Islam and Western Europe, the creation and expansion of the Mongol Empire, the impact of the Black Death, the European discovery of the New World, the staples trade from 1870?1914, and the rise and fall of banditry in Brazil. The Economics of the Frontier brings together a collection of essays which explore how economically optimal frontiers were founded from sixth-century Europe through to twentieth-century Brazil. 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aRegional economics 606 $aSpace in economics 606 $aEconomic History 606 $aRegional and Spatial Economics 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aRegional economics. 615 0$aSpace in economics. 615 14$aEconomic History. 615 24$aRegional and Spatial Economics. 676 $a330.9 700 $aFindlay$b Ronald$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0120811 702 $aLundahl$b Mats$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151578403321 996 $aThe Economics of the Frontier$92089730 997 $aUNINA