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标题：Living in the Garden of Eden: Mineral Resources Foster Individualism
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作者：Mathieu Couttenier ; Marc Sangnier
期刊名称：DEEP Cahiers de Recherches Économiques / Université de Lausanne
出版年度：2012
出版社：Université de Lausanne
摘要：This paper documents a positive relationship between mineral resources abundance and individualistic values in the United States. We refer to "individualism" as the set of values opposed to public intervention in income allocation and favorable to individual selfresponsibility. We show that individuals living in states with large mineral resources endowment are more individualistic. We take advantage of both the spatial and the temporal distributions of mineral discoveries since 1800 to uncover two channels. The experience channel arises because of direct observation of discoveries by individuals. The transmission channel consists in the persistence of specific values across generations
关键词：individualism; redistribution; mineral resources; persistence