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The wealth of nations : origins of prosperity and seeds of inequality

Galor, Oded - 2026

What ignited humanity's momentous ascent from millennia of stagnation to an era of sustained economic growth? And what are the roots of the vast disparities in the wealth of nations? These enduring mysteries, which have preoccupied scholars across generations, lie at the core of Unified Growth...

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Cultural adaptation and the uneven emergence of large-scale cooperation

Galor, Oded - 2026

This essay suggests that the evolution of human cooperation over the course of human history should be viewed as a two-layer process. A foundational layer, rooted in subsistence and ecological pressures, shaped cooperative dispositions unevenly, whereas an expansionary layer, rooted in conflict...

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Malthusian migrations

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain - 2026

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Malthusian Migrations

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain - 2025

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Human brain evolution in a Malthusian economy

Chu, Angus C. - 2025

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The shift to commitment politics and populism : theory and evidence

Bellodi, Luca; Morelli, Massimo; Nicolò, Antonio; … - 2025 - This version: May 3, 2025

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The shift to commitment politics and populism : theory and evidence

Bellodi, Luca; Morelli, Massimo; Nicolò, Antonio; … - 2023

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The shift to commitment politics and populism : theory and evidence

Bellodi, Luca; Morelli, Massimo; Nicolò, Antonio; … - 2023

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Unified growth theory : roots of growth and inequality in the wealth of nations

Galor, Oded - 2025

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Unified growth theory : roots of growth and inequality in the wealth of nations

Galor, Oded - 2025

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Unified growth theory : roots of growth and inequality in the wealth of nations

Galor, Oded - 2024

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A Chinese Malthus or an English Hung? : a comparative analysis of Hung Liang-Chi and Thomas Robert Malthus's population theories

Moon, Samantha - 2025

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From Neolithic Revolution to industrialization

Chu, Angus C.; Xu, Rongxin - 2024

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Unified Growth Theory : engines of growth and inequality in the wealth of nations

Galor, Oded - 2024

What sparked humanity's leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified Growth Theory explores the evolution of societies over the entire course of human history. It uncovers the universal wheels of change that have governed the journey of humanity,...

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The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East

Allen, Robert C. - 2024

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How South Korea escaped from the Malthusian trap : evidence from the Galor-Weil model

Bakırtaş, İbrahim; Yardımcı, Emre - 2024

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Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world : weak or strong homeostasis?

Deseau, Arnaud - 2024

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Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world : weak or strong homeostasis?

Deseau, Arnaud - 2023

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Speed of convergence in a Malthusian world : weak or strong homeostasis?

Deseau, Arnaud - 2023

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The Middle-Eastern marriage pattern? : malthusian dynamics in nineteenth-century Egypt

Kumon, Yuzuru; Saleh, Mohamed - 2023

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From the sand up : an environmental and demographic explanation of the economic, legal, and political structure of Arabia

Allen, Robert C. - 2025

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T. Robert Malthus's comparative political economy of prudential restraint

Emmett, Ross B. - 2025

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Gazing at long-term linkages between agricultural land use and population growth in India : an inverted "U-shape" relationship

Jana, Arjun; Goli, Srinivas - 2025

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Impatience to consume and population growth in a simple agrarian economy

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Skonhoft, Anders - 2022

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Impatience to consume and population growth in a simple agrarian economy

Amundsen, Eirik Schrøder; Skonhoft, Anders - 2022

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Malthusian stagnation is efficient

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - 2022

This article studies socially optimal allocations, from the point of view of a benevolent social planner, in environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully rational and altruistic toward their descendants. Our...

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Malthusian stagnation is efficient

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - 2016

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Political fragmentation versus a unified empire in a Malthusian economy

Chu, Angus C.; Peretto, Pietro F.; Furukawa, Yuichi - 2024

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Can Marshall plus Malthus explain the evolution of ancient societies? : a review of economic prehistory by Dow and Reed

Bowles, Samuel; Bogaard, Amy - 2024

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William Godwin and Thomas Robert Malthus : Economics, Justice, Population and the Poor

Reisman, David - 2024

1. Introduction -- 2. The Individual -- 3. The State -- 4. Population -- 5. The Enquirer -- 6. The Continuing Debate -- 7. Malthus’ Essay -- 8. Godwin’s Thoughts -- 9. Of Population -- 10. The Westminster Review. 11. Conclusion.

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Economic growth, population theory, and physiology : the bearing of long-term processes on the making of economic policy

Fogel, Robert William - 1998

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Economic growth, population theory, and physiology : the bearing of long-term processes on the making of economic policy

Fogel, Robert William - 1994

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Economic growth, population theory, and physiology : the bearing of long-term processes on the making of economic policy

Fogel, Robert William - 1994

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Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology : The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy

Fogel, Robert William - 2021

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Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology : The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy

Fogel, Robert W. - 1994

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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth

Fogel, Robert William - 2021

This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in progress and will probably continue for another century or more. The evolutionary perspective presented in this paper focuses not only on the environment, which from the standpoint of...

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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth

Fogel, Robert William - 2000

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The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today : Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth

Fogel, Robert W. - 1994

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Population, Technology, and Growth : from the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded; Weil, David N. - 2021

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....

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Population, Technology, and Growth : From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond

Galor, Oded - 1998

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Rank-Additive Population Ethics

Pivato, Marcus - 2021

The class of "rank-additive" (RA) axiologies includes rank-weighted utilitarian, generalized utilitarian, and rank-discounted generalized utilitarian rules; it is a flexible framework for population ethics. This paper axiomatically characterizes RA axiologies and studies their properties in two...

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From Malthus to Ohlin : Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

A recent endogenous growth literature has focused on the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages were linked to factor endowments, to one where modern growth has broken that link. In this paper we present evidence on another, related phenomenon: the dramatic reversal in...

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From Malthus to Ohlin : Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500

O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2002

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Technological change and inequality in the very long run

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2020

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Technological change and inequality in the very long run

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2020

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The race between population and technology : real wages in the first Industrial Revolution

Crafts, Nicholas; Mills, Terence C. - 2020

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The race between population and technology : real wages in the first industrial revolution

Crafts, Nicholas; Mills, Terence C. - 2020

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The race between population and technology : real wages in the first industrial revolution

Crafts, Nicholas; Mills, Terence C. - 2020

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Food, fuel and the domesday economy

Moreno Cruz, Juan; Taylor, Michael Scott - 2020

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The Malthus fraud

Dees, Robert - 2023

"The defeat of the British government by American revolutionaries in 1776 and the role of the laboring classes in overthrowing the French monarchy in 1789 inspired confidence among working people and fear among the elites, posing the need for an ideological counterattack. The Essay on Population...

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Technology and survival in preindustrial England : a Malthusian view

Attar, M. Aykut - 2023

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Hobbes and the political economy of population

Smith, Brian - 2023

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The long-run relationship between per capita incomes and population size

Eden, Maya; Kuruc, Kevin - 2023

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Of families and inheritance : law and development in England before the Industrial Revolution

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2023

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Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy

Chu, Angus C. - 2023

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The invention of scarcity : Malthus and the margins of history

Valenze, Deborah M. - 2023

"This radical new reading of the eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population exposes his narrow understanding of food production by examining subsistence activities such as hunting, herding, and gardening. In broadening our conception of human...

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The Invention of Scarcity : Malthus and the Margins of History

Valenze, Deborah M. - 2023 - 1st ed.

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Costs, Benefits, Malthus's Mistake

Pease, Craig M. - 2019

Our political and legal institutions have considerable experience managing small scale biological processes, and less experience with global scale geologic and meteorological processes. Importantly, biological systems tend to stasis. Geological systems often do not. The human population is now...

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Why Malthus will always be wrong

Cooper, Aidan; Block, Walter - 2019

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Malthus was right : explaining a millennium of stagnation

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2019

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Malthus was right : explaining a millennium of stagnation

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2019

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Samuelson's contributions to population theory and overlapping generations in economics

Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019

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Samuelson's contributions to population theory and overlapping generations in economics

Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019

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Samuelson's Contributions to Population Theory and Overlapping Generations in Economics

Lee, Ronald Demos - 2019

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Will Indonesia Be the Next Victim of the Malthusian Population Prophecy? Empirical Evidence from 'Box–Jenkins' ARIMA Approach

Nyoni, Thabani - 2019

Employing annual time series data on total population in Indonesia from 1960 to 2017, we model and forecast total population over the next 3 decades using the Box–Jenkins ARIMA technique. Diagnostic tests such as the ADF tests show that Indonesia annual total population is neither I (0) nor I...

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The Principle of Population and the Malthusian Trap

Lueger, Tim - 2019

In spite of two centuries of extensive debate, a consistent framework of the classical theory of population on which economists can universally agree has not been established. This means that either the theory lacks consistency or it has been misunderstood in important ways. This paper attempts...

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Malthus in the Light of Climate Change

Bretschger, Lucas - 2019

To reconsider the Malthusian predictions of natural limits to economic development, the paper develops a multi-sector growth model with exhaustible resource extraction, investments in physical and knowledge capital, climate change, and endogenous fertility. Economic growth is driven by...

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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death

Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019

The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...

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The macroeconomics of Malthus

Pullen, John - 2022

"The views of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) on population, first published in his Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798, continue to be hotly debated, either acclaimed or opposed, as do his views on microeconomics. There is also a widely held view that his macroeconomics lacks coherence...

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