Malthusian Economies
https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-210a-lecture-1b.pptx
Jared Diamond (1987): The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race
Richard Steckel (2008): Biological Measures of the Standard of Living http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.22.1.129
Gregory Clark (2005): The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209–2004 http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.1086/.pdf
Gregory Clark (2007): Living Standards and the Logic of the Malthusian Era, draft of A Farewell to Alms http://tinyurl.com/dl20090112e http://tinyurl.com/dl20090112j
Additional and optional:
- Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn (2013), “On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 128 (May), pp. 469–530. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/nunn/files/alesina_giuliano_nunn_qje_2013.pdf
- Slides: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/06n0DS9RWZS9yreEBvjmqHXSg
- A Brief Cheat-Sheet Note on the Solow-Malthus Model https://www.bradford-delong.com/2020/01/a-brief-cheat-sheet-note-on-the-solow-malthus-model-for-understanding-pre-industrial-economies.html
- Malthusian Perperctives https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/malthus.htm
In The Ancient Economy: Moses Finley (1965): Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World https://delong.typepad.com/finley-technical.pdf
- Malthusian Economic Growth https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0Dy-Qg7Z__2fBvaECGbKVCvIg https://www.icloud.com/keynote/01Qd7bq8uO_6B1PnqO6OVho6w
- The Nature of a Malthusian Economy https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0hzXPXrpGItXnBkTgbVDTGzLQ
- Dark Satanic Millian Liberalism from John Stuart Mill http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/05/dark-satanic-millian-liberalism-from-john-stuart-mill.html
- (12 min) Steckel:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Finley:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Diamond:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Alesina et al.:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Clark:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Clark:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
Cool-Down:
- Looking Forward (5 min): Next time
- Looking Forward (5 min): Next reaction question