The transition from stagnation to growth and the associated phenomenon of the great divergence have been the subject of … an intensive research in the growth literature in recent years. The discrepancy between the predictions of exogenous and … endogenous growth models and the process of development over most of human history, induced growth theorists to advance an …

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime … declining living standards; this is termed maximum sustainable population growth. We then apply the framework to Britain and … find a dramatic increase in sustainable population growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution, well before the …

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime … declining living standards; this is termed maximum sustainable population growth. We then apply the framework to Britain and … find a dramatic increase in sustainable population growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution, well before the …

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime … declining living standards; this is termed maximum sustainable population growth. We then apply the framework to Britain and … find a dramatic increase in sustainable population growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution, well before the …

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the …