Dietrich Vollrath
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From one piece Review of DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia" 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What I’m nitpicking here is that this decline in fertility deserves equal billing with the research lab, corporation, and globalization.
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Without this anti-Malthusian response the research lab, corporation, and globalization cannot provide sustained growth.
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What broke the Malthusian trap was that productivity growth raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.Their words
The key change is that productivity growth, starting around 1870, reached down and profoundly raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.
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Prior to this inflection point, productivity growth had increased before, but every time had induced a response of higher population growth rates, eroding any gains in per-person living standards.
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It was an acceleration in productivity combined with a decline in population growth that put us on a slow trudge towards utopia.
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