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Economic-demographic interactions in long-run growth
Cliometrics confirms that Malthus’ model of the pre-industrial economy, in which increases in productivity raise population but higher population drives down wages, is a good description for much of demographic/economic history. A contributor to the Malthusian equilibrium was the Western European Marriage Pattern, the late age of female first marriage, which promised to retard the fall of living standards by restricting fertility. The demographic transition and the transition from Malthusian economies to modern economic growth attracted many Cliometric models surveyed here. A popular model component is that lower levels of mortality over many centuries increased the returns to, or preference for, human capital investment so that technical progress eventually accelerated. This initially boosted birth rates and population growth accelerated. Fertility decline was earliest and most striking in late eighteenth century France. By the 1830s the fall in French marital fertility is consistent with a response to the rising opportunity cost of children. The rest of Europe did not begin to follow until end of the nineteenth century. Interactions between the economy and migration have been modelled with Cliometric structures closely related to those of natural increase and the economy. Wages were driven up by emigration from Europe and reduced in the economies receiving immigrants
A manual of political economy for schools and colleges /
Includes index.Mode of access: Internet
Economic interpretation of history: Lectures delivered in Worcester college hall, Oxford 1887-88
The economic interpretation of history. (Lectures delivered in Worcester College Hall, Oxford, 1887-8)
Mode of access: Internet
A history of agriculture and prices in England, from the year after the Oxford parliament (1259) to the commencement of the continental war (1793); comp. entirely from original and contemporaneous records
Vol. 7 was "edited with sundry additions by one of his sons."--Pref. (signed: Arthur G.L. Rogers)I-II. 1259-1400. 1856.- III-V. 1401-1582. 1887.- VI. 1583-1702. 1887.- VII. 1703-1793. 1902.Mode of access: Internet.v.2 formerly in the reference library of the Middle English Dictionary editorial offices