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dc.contributor.author | Strulik, Holger | en |
dc.contributor.author | Dalgaard, Carl-Johan | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:08:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:08:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19884 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper develops a bio-economic Malthusian growth model. By integrating recent research on allometric scaling, energy consumption, and ontogenetic growth we provide a model where subsistence consumption is endogenously linked to body mass and fertility. The theory admits a two-dimensional Malthusian equilibrium characterized by population density and body mass (metabolic rate) of the representative adult. As a result, the analysis allows us to examine the link between, in particular, human biology and long run income, body mass and population size. Off the steady-state we investigate the possibility of cyclical behavior of the size of a population and the size of its representative member. We also demonstrate that a take-off into sustained growth should be associated with increasing income, population size, and body mass. The increase in the latter is, however, bounded and can be viewed as convergence to a biologically determined upper limit. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aVerein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer |cGöttingen | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aProceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 |x31 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I12 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O11 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J13 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Subsistence | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Nutrition | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Metabolism | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Population Growth | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Ontogenetic Growth | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Malthus | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bioökonomik | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bevölkerungstheorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bevölkerungswachstum | en |
dc.subject.stw | Ernährung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Körpergröße | en |
dc.title | Subsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium | - |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 56091413X | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6554 | en |
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