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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Strulik, Holger | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Dalgaard, Carl-Johan | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-01-28T16:08:33Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-01-28T16:08:33Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2007 | | en_US |
| 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_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 31 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I12 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O11 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J13 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Subsistence | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Nutrition | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Metabolism | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Population Growth | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Ontogenetic Growth | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Malthus | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bioökonomik | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bevölkerungstheorie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bevölkerungswachstum | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Ernährung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Theorie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Körpergröße | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Subsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Conference Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 56091413X | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| dc.identifier.repec | | RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6554 | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2007 (Göttingen)
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