SOME FURTHER ECONOMICS OF EASTER ISLAND: ADDING SUBSISTENCE AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION
| dc.creator | Pezzey, John C.V. | |
| dc.creator | Anderies, John M. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:56:43Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T06:11:23Z | |
| dc.description | 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 explore a tax rate path which could have almost completely prevented overshoot, and conjecture that the overall strength of this path must rise when the subsistence level rises. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.125835 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125835/files/Pezzey4.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125835 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/573455 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125835 | |
| dc.title | SOME FURTHER ECONOMICS OF EASTER ISLAND: ADDING SUBSISTENCE AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION | |
| dc.type | Text |