@inproceedings{Strulik2007Subsistence,
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.},
author = {Holger Strulik and Carl-Johan Dalgaard},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I12; O11; J13; 330; Subsistence; Nutrition; Metabolism; Population Growth; Ontogenetic Growth; Malthus; Bio\"{o}konomik; Bev\"{o}lkerungstheorie; Bev\"{o}lkerungswachstum; Ern\"{a}hrung; Theorie; K\"{o}rpergr\"{o}\ss{}e},
language = {eng},
number = {31},
series = {Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, G\"{o}ttingen 2007 / Verein f\"{u}r Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics},
title = {Subsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19884},
year = {2007}
}
