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Animals domestication and agriculture as outcomes of collusion

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  • Pedro Cosme Costa Vieira

    (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do do Porto)

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Although it is known that there are circumstances where the competitive situation does not promote social welfare maximization, collusion is usually associated with firms’ strategies that decrease welfare. In this paper, using the theoretical framework of the industrial organization, I demonstrate in a model with two sectors that the economic revolution induced by the animal domestication and the agriculture is an outcome from the strengthen in collusion between human beings in the course of historical time and not vice-versa.

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  • Pedro Cosme Costa Vieira, 2005. "Animals domestication and agriculture as outcomes of collusion," FEP Working Papers 164, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
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    Keywords

    Collusion; welfare progress; domestication; agriculture emergence;
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    JEL classification:

    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q34 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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