The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution and the Origins of Private Property
质疑传统解释（劳动生产率和人口压力等）为何狩猎采集者转向农业，提出基于占有的私有财产是关键，并建模说明农业在无生产率优势下仍可被采纳。
Familiar explanations of why hunter-gatherers first took up farming—superior labor productivity, population pressure, or adverse climate—receive little support from recent evidence. Farming would be an unlikely choice without possession-based private property, which appears to have existed among rare groups of sedentary hunter-gatherers who became the first farmers. Our model shows that among them, farming could have benefited first adopters because private possession was more readily established and defended for cultivated crops and domesticated animals than for the diffuse wild resources on which hunter-gatherers relied, thus explaining how farming could have been introduced even without a productivity advantage.