Climate Risk, Cooperation and the Co-Evolution of Culture and Institutions

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between economic risk and the evolution of social cooperation. We hypothesise that trust developed in pre-industrial times as a result of experiences of cooperation aimed at coping with climatic risk. We document that European regions with higher pre-ind...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Economic journal (London) 2021-07, Vol.131 (637), p.1947-1987
Hauptverfasser: Buggle, Johannes C, Durante, Ruben
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