【学术聚焦▪论坛预告】经济学系双周学术论坛（十）

作者：厦大经院经济学系 •

经济学系 · 双周学术论坛

第十场报告｜预告

 ● 报告时间：

5月18日（周二），12:10-14:10

 ● 举办地点：

经济学院 N302

 ● 报告人：

林友宏 副教授

 ● 报告题目：

The Fractured-Land Hypothesis

 ● 报告语言：

中文










报告摘要

Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms of topographical features and the location of productive agricultural land to quantitatively gauge the effects of “fractured land” on state formation in Eurasia. We find that either topography or productive land alone is sufficient to account for China's recurring political unification and Europe's persistent political fragmentation. The existence of a core region of high land productivity in Northern China plays a central role in our simulations. We discuss how our results map into observed historical outcomes and assess how robust our findings are.

经济学系双周学术论坛简介：

为了进一步加强对传统优势学科政治经济学、经济史和经济思想史的研究交流，经济学系开展“双周学术论坛”，邀请经济学系和其他系、所、中心师生介绍前沿科研成果，为广大经济学子打造一个高品质的学术交流平台。论坛研讨方向主要突出政治经济学、经济史和经济思想史，兼容发展经济学与应用微观等方向，立足中国国情，讲好中国故事。

Description of 

Economics Biweekly Academic Forum:

The Economics Biweekly Academic Forum is organized by the department of economics in Xiamen University. This forum mainly discusses the topics in the field of political economics, economic history and history of economic thought, with the aim to strengthen the communication between these traditional disciplines and the state of the art in the literature. This forum invites speakers and research students from various departments, which is a high quality platform for academic communication and research discussion. The forum also provides an excellent stage to tell Chinese economics story with precise academic language and Chinese culture. 

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