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dc.contributor.authorStrulik, Holgeren
dc.contributor.authorDalgaard, Carl-Johanen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:08:33Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:08:33Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/19884-
dc.description.abstractThis 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.isoengen
dc.publisher|aVerein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer |cGöttingenen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aProceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 |x31en
dc.subject.jelI12en
dc.subject.jelO11en
dc.subject.jelJ13en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordSubsistenceen
dc.subject.keywordNutritionen
dc.subject.keywordMetabolismen
dc.subject.keywordPopulation Growthen
dc.subject.keywordOntogenetic Growthen
dc.subject.keywordMalthusen
dc.subject.stwBioökonomiken
dc.subject.stwBevölkerungstheorieen
dc.subject.stwBevölkerungswachstumen
dc.subject.stwErnährungen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.subject.stwKörpergrößeen
dc.titleSubsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium-
dc.typeConference Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn56091413Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:gdec07:6554en

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