GL101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Thomas Robert Malthus, Human Capital Flight, Feedback
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Quality of life: the degrees of goodness of the conditions of life and the lifestyle pf the person. Cannot be measured as everyone sees happiness different. Standard of living: the condition in which people live or like to live. These condition can be considered desirable measured but national or international standards. Read all chapters indicated and look at the terms at the start of every chapter. Demopgraphy: the study of population and implication of changes in population size and compoistions example: government would use the data to predict was to change the government and its spending. Carry capacity: the maximum number of people that can be subtstained by the envieronemnt. Nomardic hunters and gathers: groups of people who sruived from moving from one place to the other looking for food to collect and animal to hunt. Agricultural revolution: the cultivation of plants and domestication of the animals that likely started in the middles east about 100 0000 years ago.