GEO 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trilemma, Total Fertility Rate, Cultural Identity
24 Feb 2021
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In 1968 two stanford biologists, paul and anne erhlich predicted a malthusian end to civilisation: as population numbers ballooned and outstripped food supplies, we would face mass starvation. Why are people important: for the global political economy, people are important as: Cultural identity: going to look at changing population size and structure in the world and how it affects the political economy, and that means exploring demographic concepts such as: (transitions, pyramids, components b, d, m: underlying political economic principle is that of human capital. The concept of human capital: so then, people are a source of ideas, skill, innovation, demand, supply, entrepreneurship, labour, capital, knowledge, etc, but it is their qualitative characteristics that comprise most of their value as human. Capital : being better parents, more informed voters, more appreciative of arts and their culture, more willing and able to care for each other and less willing to go to war: nobel laureate economist gary becker says that:
