Colony May 2026

This is one of the most cited papers in modern economics. It argues that the types of institutions established by colonial powers (extractive vs. settler) were heavily influenced by European settler mortality rates, which in turn explains current global income disparities.

An unconventional look at "domestic colonies" (farm colonies for the mentally ill or utopian communities) rather than overseas territories. It highlights how these internal projects used the same principles of segregation and agrarian labor found in traditional settler colonialism. Biological & Specialized Perspectives Colonial Reproduction and Life Histories (ResearchGate). Colony

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by Karen Arneil (2017).

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