| dc.creator |
Strulik, Holger |
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| dc.creator |
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan |
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| dc.date |
2007 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T07:07:18Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T07:07:18Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19884 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:56091413X |
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| dc.identifier |
RePEc:zbw:gdec07:6554 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19884 |
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| dc.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. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
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| dc.relation |
Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 31 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
I12 |
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| dc.subject |
O11 |
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| dc.subject |
J13 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
Subsistence |
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| dc.subject |
Nutrition |
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| dc.subject |
Metabolism |
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| dc.subject |
Population Growth |
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| dc.subject |
Ontogenetic Growth |
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| dc.subject |
Malthus |
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| dc.subject |
Bioökonomik |
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| dc.subject |
Bevölkerungstheorie |
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| dc.subject |
Bevölkerungswachstum |
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| dc.subject |
Ernährung |
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| dc.subject |
Theorie |
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| dc.subject |
Körpergröße |
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| dc.title |
Subsistence: A Bio-economic Foundation of the Malthusian Equilibrium |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:conferenceObject |
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