ECON 452W Midterm: midterm 2010
9 Jan 2019
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You should mention names of authors when possible. Sketch the state of (i) global climate; (ii) food technology; and (iii) social organization at. Starting from this point, jared diamond believes that events over the next several thousand years had a crucial influence on the modern world. Harris and ross believe that hunter-gatherer societies typically had low fertility and low mortality. Caldwell and caldwell think that hg societies typically had high fertility and high mortality. Describe the reasoning behind each of these arguments, and evaluate the merits of each argument. Compare the model in kremer"s (1993) paper "population growth and technological. Change" with the model in dow and reed"s (2010) paper "stagnation and innovation. Although these models deal with overlapping issues, the authors may have constructed their models differently because they had different goals. Consider baker"s (2008) paper "a structural model of the transition to agriculture".
