Carl Hampus Lyttkens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Hampus Lyttkens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl Hampus |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyttkens |
| SIGNATURE | LYTTKENS C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6286-124X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Coping with Chronic Warfare. The Athenian Experience
Understanding the Politics of Pericles around 450 BCE
Perikles is usually seen as a great statesman and clever leader of the Athenians. In the mid fifth century BC, he seems however to have been in serious political trouble and may well have been in danger of losing the political struggle against his opponent Kimon. The fact that his incentives changed considerably at this point in time seems to have escaped attention in the literature. In contrast, we see Pericles’ rational responses to fierce comp…
Making direct democracy work
The specific way the Athenians set up their democracy presents both theoretical and empirical challenges. Decisions were taken by majority vote in the Assembly. To keep politicians in line, the Athenians first used ostracism, which however was replaced by the graphe paranomon around 415 BCE. The latter provided that anybody who had made a proposal in the Assembly could be accused of having made an unconstitutional suggestion, bringing a potential…
The Effect of Schooling on Mortality
By using historical data on about 50,000 twins born in Sweden during 1886-1958, we demonstrate a positive and statistically significant relationship between years of schooling and longevity. This relation remains almost unchanged when exploiting a twin fixed-effects design to control for the influence of genetics and shared family background. This result is robust to controlling for within-twin-pair differences in early-life health and cognitive …
Globalization, democracy, and child health in developing countries
The Roman bazaar. A comparative study of trade and markets in a tributary empire
Peter Fibiger Bang, The Roman bazaar. A comparative study of trade and markets in a tributary empire, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, XV+358 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-85532-7. In 1973, Moses
Economic Analysis of Institutional Change in Ancient Greece
This book presents an economic analysis of the causes and consequences of institutional change in ancient Athens. Focusing on the period 800-300 BCE, it looks in particular at the development of political institutions and taxation, including a new look at the activities of individuals like Solon, Kleisthenes and Perikles and on the changes in political rules and taxation after the Peloponnesian War
Institutions, taxation, and market relationships in ancient Athens
This paper explores the institutional and economic development in ancient Athens from around 600 BC into the fourth century, a period during which the Athenians experienced oligarchy, tyranny, a gradually evolving but eventually far-reaching male democracy, followed by a return to more influence for the elite. Concomitantly, economic life changed qualitatively and quantitatively. Self-sufficient farming gradually gave way to market relationships …
Income inequality and health
Reflections on the Origins of the Polis
Habit versus choice
Health care for the elderly
Equity is out of fashion? An essay on autonomy and health policy in the individualized society
An economic and sociological interpretation of social differences in health-related behaviour
A Predatory Democracy? An Essay on Taxation in Classical Athens
Effects of the taxation of wealth in Athens in the fourth century B. C
In the fourth century B.C., Athenians were often accused of avoiding their civic obligations and of concealing their wealth.1 These attested cases show that economic behaviour in classical Athens could be affected by taxation. The purpose of the present study is to systematically explore the economic incentives resulting from the taxation of wealth. The first issue is the effects of the property taxes on the relative attractiveness of different a…
Military expenditures in developing countries
Opportunity Costs of Defence
A critical appraisal is made of an article in this journal by Dabelko and McCormick. In the article, the authors try to estimate the opportunity cost of defence. With simple tools from economic analysis it is shown that their methodological approach reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of this important and useful concept. In the final section, some difficulties encountered when attempting a correct empirical analysis of opportunity costs are b…
Habit versus choice
Income inequality and health
An economic and sociological interpretation of social differences in health-related behaviour
Globalization, democracy, and child health in developing countries
The Effect of Schooling on Mortality
By using historical data on about 50,000 twins born in Sweden during 1886-1958, we demonstrate a positive and statistically significant relationship between years of schooling and longevity. This relation remains almost unchanged when exploiting a twin fixed-effects design to control for the influence of genetics and shared family background. This result is robust to controlling for within-twin-pair differences in early-life health and cognitive …
Equity is out of fashion? An essay on autonomy and health policy in the individualized society
Institutions, taxation, and market relationships in ancient Athens
This paper explores the institutional and economic development in ancient Athens from around 600 BC into the fourth century, a period during which the Athenians experienced oligarchy, tyranny, a gradually evolving but eventually far-reaching male democracy, followed by a return to more influence for the elite. Concomitantly, economic life changed qualitatively and quantitatively. Self-sufficient farming gradually gave way to market relationships …
Making direct democracy work
The specific way the Athenians set up their democracy presents both theoretical and empirical challenges. Decisions were taken by majority vote in the Assembly. To keep politicians in line, the Athenians first used ostracism, which however was replaced by the graphe paranomon around 415 BCE. The latter provided that anybody who had made a proposal in the Assembly could be accused of having made an unconstitutional suggestion, bringing a potential…
Health care for the elderly
Effects of the taxation of wealth in Athens in the fourth century B. C
In the fourth century B.C., Athenians were often accused of avoiding their civic obligations and of concealing their wealth.1 These attested cases show that economic behaviour in classical Athens could be affected by taxation. The purpose of the present study is to systematically explore the economic incentives resulting from the taxation of wealth. The first issue is the effects of the property taxes on the relative attractiveness of different a…
Opportunity Costs of Defence
A critical appraisal is made of an article in this journal by Dabelko and McCormick. In the article, the authors try to estimate the opportunity cost of defence. With simple tools from economic analysis it is shown that their methodological approach reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of this important and useful concept. In the final section, some difficulties encountered when attempting a correct empirical analysis of opportunity costs are b…
Reflections on the Origins of the Polis
A Predatory Democracy? An Essay on Taxation in Classical Athens
Military expenditures in developing countries
Opportunity Costs of Defence
A critical appraisal is made of an article in this journal by Dabelko and McCormick. In the article, the authors try to estimate the opportunity cost of defence. With simple tools from economic analysis it is shown that their methodological approach reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of this important and useful concept. In the final section, some difficulties encountered when attempting a correct empirical analysis of opportunity costs are b…
Military expenditures in developing countries
Effects of the taxation of wealth in Athens in the fourth century B. C
In the fourth century B.C., Athenians were often accused of avoiding their civic obligations and of concealing their wealth.1 These attested cases show that economic behaviour in classical Athens could be affected by taxation. The purpose of the present study is to systematically explore the economic incentives resulting from the taxation of wealth. The first issue is the effects of the property taxes on the relative attractiveness of different a…
A Predatory Democracy? An Essay on Taxation in Classical Athens
An economic and sociological interpretation of social differences in health-related behaviour
Equity is out of fashion? An essay on autonomy and health policy in the individualized society
Habit versus choice
Health care for the elderly
Reflections on the Origins of the Polis
Institutions, taxation, and market relationships in ancient Athens
This paper explores the institutional and economic development in ancient Athens from around 600 BC into the fourth century, a period during which the Athenians experienced oligarchy, tyranny, a gradually evolving but eventually far-reaching male democracy, followed by a return to more influence for the elite. Concomitantly, economic life changed qualitatively and quantitatively. Self-sufficient farming gradually gave way to market relationships …
Income inequality and health
The Roman bazaar. A comparative study of trade and markets in a tributary empire
Peter Fibiger Bang, The Roman bazaar. A comparative study of trade and markets in a tributary empire, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, XV+358 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-85532-7. In 1973, Moses
Economic Analysis of Institutional Change in Ancient Greece
This book presents an economic analysis of the causes and consequences of institutional change in ancient Athens. Focusing on the period 800-300 BCE, it looks in particular at the development of political institutions and taxation, including a new look at the activities of individuals like Solon, Kleisthenes and Perikles and on the changes in political rules and taxation after the Peloponnesian War
Globalization, democracy, and child health in developing countries
The Effect of Schooling on Mortality
By using historical data on about 50,000 twins born in Sweden during 1886-1958, we demonstrate a positive and statistically significant relationship between years of schooling and longevity. This relation remains almost unchanged when exploiting a twin fixed-effects design to control for the influence of genetics and shared family background. This result is robust to controlling for within-twin-pair differences in early-life health and cognitive …
Understanding the Politics of Pericles around 450 BCE
Perikles is usually seen as a great statesman and clever leader of the Athenians. In the mid fifth century BC, he seems however to have been in serious political trouble and may well have been in danger of losing the political struggle against his opponent Kimon. The fact that his incentives changed considerably at this point in time seems to have escaped attention in the literature. In contrast, we see Pericles’ rational responses to fierce comp…
Making direct democracy work
The specific way the Athenians set up their democracy presents both theoretical and empirical challenges. Decisions were taken by majority vote in the Assembly. To keep politicians in line, the Athenians first used ostracism, which however was replaced by the graphe paranomon around 415 BCE. The latter provided that anybody who had made a proposal in the Assembly could be accused of having made an unconstitutional suggestion, bringing a potential…
Coping with Chronic Warfare. The Athenian Experience
Economics (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Positive economics (5 works)