The Economics of the Frontier

Conquest and Settlement

Mats Lundahl author Ronald Findlay author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:25th Nov '16

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The Economics of the Frontier cover

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 the Black Death, the European discovery of the New World, the staples trade from 1870–1914, and the rise and fall of banditry in Brazil.

The Economics of the Frontier 
brings together a collection of essays which explore how economically optimal frontiers were founded from sixth-century Europe through to twentieth-century Brazil.

ISBN: 9781137602367

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 6971g

448 pages

1st ed. 2017