Population and wage records from the Chosŏn Dynasty of Korea from the 18th to 19th centuries are compared with Wrigley-Schofield's wage-population dynamics of Britain during the industrial revolution. A one-sector agrarian Cobb-Douglas economy is proposed for a possible comparison of the two...

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime. It identifies several factors that determine the fastest rate at which the population can grow without engendering declining living standards; this is termed maximum...

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime. It identifies several factors that determine the fastest rate at which the population can grow without engendering declining living standards; this is termed maximum...