Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China
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Keywords
Kinship networks; Confucianism; Cannibalism; Violence; Risk mitigation; Resource pooling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N35 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Asia including Middle East
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
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