Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human histo...

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Main Authors: Galor, Oded, Michalopoulos, Stelios
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71557