Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies
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Keywords
geographic determinism; environmental determinism; economic development; Daron Acemoglu; Jeffrey Sachs; Jared Diamond; explanation; exogenous factors; location; distribution; colonialism; biogeography;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- N90 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - General, International, or Comparative
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
- F54 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
- O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2011-04-09 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-PKE-2011-04-09 (Post Keynesian Economics)
- NEP-URE-2011-04-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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