Essays on culture and economic relationships

Chapter two investigates whether insular cultures are less likely to adopt new technologies. Combining GIS crop production data with unique language data, I show that societies that are isolated on the language tree produce less of the crops that required adoption, but not of the crops not requiring...

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Main Author: Blouin, Arthur
Published: University of Warwick 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.640934