Climate and Extractive Colonization: The Economic Development of Amur River Basin

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	Regionalistica 2021 Volume 8 number 2 pages 71–91

Title of the article	Climate and Extractive Colonization: The Economic Development of Amur River Basin
Pages	71–91
Author 1	Ryzhova Natalia Petrovna Doctor of economics, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the laboratory Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Author 2	Ryzhov Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Consultant Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract	The article provides a review of theoretical concepts and empirical studies of the mutual influence of economic development processes and the types of formal and informal institutions constructed. It reveals that in order to explain the phenomenon of long-term stability of reproduction of the gap between theoretically expected and observed economic and social responses to institutional innovations in the Amur River basin, it is reasonable to test the hypothesis of blocking positive return on resources by extractive institutions, and the hypothesis of constant reproduction of extractive nature of institutions under the influence of geographical features of the regional system itself.
Code	330.341
DOI	10.14530/reg.2021.2.71
Keywords	«geographical» and «institutional» hypotheses ♦ climate (floods) ♦ endowment of natural resources (sable) ♦ sedentarization (farming culture) ♦ extractive institutions and violence ♦ economic development ♦ Amur River basin
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For citation	Ryzhova N.P., Ryzhov V.A. Climate and Extractive Colonization: The Economic Development of Amur River Basin. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2021. Vol. 8. No. 2. Pp. 71–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2021.2.71 (In Russian)
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