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DOI	10.1007/s10887-024-09243-1
	Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: the case of ancient Egypt
	Mayoral, Laura; Olsson, Ola
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1381-4338
EISSN	1573-7020
英文摘要	What explains the origins and survival of the first states around 5000 years ago? In this research, we focus on the role of weather-related productivity shocks for early state development in ancient Egypt. We present a framework of extractive state consolidation predicting that political stability should be high whenever environmental circumscription is high, i.e., whenever there is a large gap between the productivity of the area under state control (core) and that of the surrounding areas (hinterland). In such periods, the elite can impose high levels of taxation that the population will be forced to accept as exit to the hinterland is not a feasible option. In order to test this hypothesis, we develop novel proxies for both the historical productivity of the Nile banks and of the Egyptian hinterland on the basis of high-resolution paleoclimate archives. Our empirical analysis then investigates the relationship between these proxies for environmental circumscription and political outcomes such as ruler and dynastic tenure durations, the area under state control and pyramid construction during 2685-1140 BCE. Our results show that while extreme Nile floods are associated with a greater degree of political instability, periods with a greater rainfall in the hinterland (i.e., a lower effective environmental circumscription) causes a decline in state capacity and a delayed increase in political instability.
英文关键词	Early state formation; Ancient Egypt; Environmental circumscription; Appropriability; Paleoclimatic data; D02; D82; H10; O43
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics
WOS类目	Economics
WOS记录号	WOS:001196134600001
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296550
作者单位	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); Barcelona School of Economics; University of Gothenburg
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mayoral, Laura,Olsson, Ola. Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: the case of ancient Egypt[J],2024.
APA	Mayoral, Laura,&Olsson, Ola.(2024).Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: the case of ancient Egypt.JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH.
MLA	Mayoral, Laura,et al."Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: the case of ancient Egypt".JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH (2024).