What Drives the Historical Formation and Persistent Development of Territorial States?
探究了早期农业转型、军事创新和与区域经济领袖的互动对国家形成的影响，发现只有经济互动与国家兴起和发展的关联在统计上稳健。
Abstract The importance of the length of state history for understanding variations in income levels and growth rates across countries has received a lot of attention in the recent literature on long‐run comparative development. The literature, however, is silent about its origins. This paper explores the determinants of statehood by considering the potential roles of an early transition to fully‐fledged agricultural production, the adoption of state‐of‐the‐art military innovations, and the opportunity for economic interaction with the regional economic leader. The results demonstrate that only the association between economic interaction and the rise and development of the state is statistically robust.