Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Platform of Understanding -- Prologue "Peasants Always Starve" -- [1] The Silent Emergency -- [2] The Framework of Understanding -- Lessons from the Great Irish Famine [1845-1850] The Causes of Starvation -- Part II:The Crisis of...

We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time preferences and in the determination of optimal consumption and optimal bequests. We show how the consumption paths of dynasties relate to altruism and to impatience, and we reason...

We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time preferences and in the determination of optimal consumption and optimal bequests. We show how the consumption paths of dynasties relate to altruism and to impatience, and we reason...