Dietrich Vollrath
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Dietrich Vollrath is an economist who studies economic growth.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Position: Professor of Economics and department chair, University of Houston (at UH from 2005) (opens wiqqi.app)
- PhD: Economics, Brown University (2005) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Book: Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success (University of Chicago Press); an Economist best book of 2020 (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Sustained growth in living standards required productivity to accelerate and population growth to fall at the same time. (opens korrents.com)
“It was an acceleration in productivity combined with a decline in population growth that put us on a slow trudge towards utopia.”
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Before about 1870 every burst of productivity growth was eaten by a burst of population growth, leaving living standards where they were. (opens korrents.com)
“Prior to this inflection point, productivity growth had increased before, but every time had induced a response of higher population growth rates, eroding any gains in per-person living standards.”
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What broke the Malthusian trap was that productivity growth raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood. (opens korrents.com)
“The key change is that productivity growth, starting around 1870, reached down and profoundly raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.”
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Sustained growth in living standards required productivity to accelerate and population growth to fall at the same time. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (opens rcmnd.app)
“Tom Holland's Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic is a great introduction to the era. He writes in an engaging style, but provides enough information and analysis to make you think.”
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Romes Revolution: Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire (opens rcmnd.app)
“Richard Allston's Romes Revolution: Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire argues that you have to understand the nature of Roman social networks to understand what happened to allow the Republic to die.”
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The Roman Revolution (opens rcmnd.app)
“Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution is a classic in this area. Written in 1939, it is one of those books that presumes the reader is already educated in classical history. So I'd suggest trying some of the others first…”
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (opens rcmnd.app)