The Boserup theory of agricultural growth: a model for anthropological economics

摘要: Abstract Ester Boserup's challenging counter-Malthusian theory of growth primitive agriculture is formalized in a continuous time framework that permits investigation the long-run properties such closed economy. It discovered from any initial conditions there are two asymmetric outcomes possible. The implications further extended to Karl Polanyi's now classic argument concerning structural transformation as an economic system makes transition feudalism capitalism and Walter Rodney's claims about origins African underdevelopment.