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The Economics of the Frontier. Conquest and Settlement.
Findlay, Ronald; Lundahl, Mats
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Description for The Economics of the Frontier. Conquest and Settlement.
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 729.
This 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 ... Read more
This 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137602367
SKU
V9781137602367
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99-15
About Findlay, Ronald; Lundahl, Mats
Ronald Findlay is Ragnar Nurkse Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University, USA. His main research fields are international economics, development economics, economic history, and economic theory. Mats Lundahl is Professor Emeritus of Development Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. His main research fields are development economics, international economics, economic history, history of economic doctrines, and agricultural ... Read more
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