No experiments, monumental disasters: Why it took a thousand years to develop a specialized fishing industry in Iceland

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-23

  Eggertsson, Thráinn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Economic history; Fisheries; Iceland; Property rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030186292     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(96)00839-6     Document Type: Article

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