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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19884| Title: | Subsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium |
| Keywords: | I12 O11 J13 ddc:330 Subsistence Nutrition Metabolism Population Growth Ontogenetic Growth Malthus Bioökonomik Bevölkerungstheorie Bevölkerungswachstum Ernährung Theorie Körpergröße |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | 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. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19884 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19884 ppn:56091413X RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6554 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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