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Some Further Economics of Easter Island: Adding Subsistence and Resource Conservation

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  • John C. V. Pezzey

    (Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University)

  • John M. Anderies

    (Sustainable Ecosystems Division, CSIRO)

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We extend Brander-Taylor's model of development on Easter Island by adding a resource subsistence requirement to people's preferences, and a conservation incentive in the form of a revenue-neutral, ad valorem tax on resource consumption. Adding subsistence improves plausibility; makes overshoot and collapse of population more extreme, and the steady state less stable; and allows for the possibility that statue building and erection will suddenly stop, in line with the archaeological evidence. We find a tax rate path which almost completely prevents overshoot, and conjecture that the overall strength of this path must rise when the subsistence level rises.

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  • John C. V. Pezzey & John M. Anderies, 2000. "Some Further Economics of Easter Island: Adding Subsistence and Resource Conservation," Working Papers in Ecological Economics 0002, Australian National University, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Ecological Economics Program.
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    • Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • N57 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Africa; Oceania
    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General

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