{"id":18208,"date":"2026-05-30T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=18208"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:05:01","slug":"the-origins-of-government-and-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-origins-of-government-and-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Government and the State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leander Heldring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Annual Review Economics<\/em>. 17:77-97.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-economics-081224-064327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-economics-081224-064327<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, a vibrant literature has emerged that studies the first states in history, both as substantive topic of interest and as an important input into understanding modern government. This survey article presents, structures, and discusses recent advances in the theoretical and empirical study in the economics of the origins of government and the state. The core hypotheses in this literature view the nature of government as extractive or cooperative. I discuss how this fundamental dichotomy in the view of the state has influenced its study and review empirical contributions. The fundamental dichotomy is not resolved, leaving room for further research.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: Annual Review of Economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/docserver\/fulltext\/economics\/17\/1\/annurev-economics-081224-064327.pdf?expires=1780132762&amp;id=id&amp;accname=guest&amp;checksum=987D2310330C9C0C68653CC34EE0C9A2\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leander Heldring Annual Review Economics. 17:77-97.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-economics-081224-064327 In recent years, a vibrant literature has emerged that studies the first states in history, both as substantive topic of interest and as an important input into understanding modern government. This survey article presents, structures, and discusses recent advances in the theoretical and empirical study in the economics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-34","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18209,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208\/revisions\/18209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}