The Logic of the Malthusian Model I

Clark addresses a simple but powerful theory of the failure of living standards to improve before 1800 (chapter 2).

[@niahma3494]

This is a fantastic lecture, thank you kindly for recording and uploading.

[@leoolliee]

I just want to say that this professor is great.

[@user-ey6oi4xw8r]

It was James Watt's Invention of the Steam Engine. A 500 times increase in the Power output for the whole country. From 20,000 Waterwheels in 1800 to 10,000,000 Steam Engines in 1900 !!!

[@tomasbeltran04050]

Yay, cool class

[@tomasbeltran04050]

29:11 bruhhhhhhhh hahahahah

[@neilsilke6648]

Wrong. The birth rate for stable population is around 1.2 per woman, not 2.1. Draw a closed system with 2 parents, two kids and two grandchildren. Population has tripled. Or do a computer model as I did. Or check China's population growth during the one child years birth rate and net migration. Will anyone listen?

[@Leotagorax]

"The TFR is not based on the fertility of any real group of women since this would involve waiting until they had completed childbearing. _Nor is it based on counting up the total number of children actually born over their lifetime_. Instead, the TFR is based on the age-specific fertility rates of women in their "child-bearing years", which in conventional international statistical usage is ages 15-44.[11] The TFR is, therefore, a measure of the fertility of an imaginary female who passes through their reproductive life subject to all the age-specific fertility rates for ages 15-49 that were recorded for a given population in a given year. The TFR represents the average number of children a female would potentially have, were they to fast-forward through all their childbearing years in a single year, under all the age-specific fertility rates for that year. In other words, this rate is the number of children a female would have if they were subject to prevailing fertility rates at all ages from a single given year and survived throughout their childbearing years." Wikipedia

[@harleybrewer99]

yes boss