ECN 110A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neolithic Revolution, Classical Economics, Infant Mortality
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Lower incomes: work hours for men seem to have increased between the neolithic revolution and the industroial. Assuming this rise was from 6 to 9 hours per day. E: hunter-gatherer societies before the neolithic revolution probably had many more violent deaths than agrarian economies on the eve of the industrial revolution. Skeletal evidence, plus cave paintings: the average population growth rate in the world between 100,000 bc and 1750 ad was 0. 007% per year. If birth rates per thousand averaged 35 over this interval, what was the average death rate (approximately). 37: some sub-saharan african societies still have birth rates of 50 per thousand of population. It is ironic that thomas malthus, the english churchman, discovered the principles of the. Malthusian economy in his book an essay on a principle of population in 1798 since. England had escaped the malthusian era long before, around 1600. English living standards by then greatly exceeded thus of the hunter-gatherer era.
