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Paul Kedrosky (paul@social.paulkedrosky.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 03:15:12 JST Paul Kedrosky

Escaping the Malthusian trap: We are so trapped in recency bias that we have no idea how anomalous our current experience is, in historical terms.
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• Escaping the Malthusian Trap - kieranhealy.org https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2023/01/08/escaping-the-malthusian-trap/
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  The Broadberry et al GDP series has estimates of England’s real GDP and population from the year 1270 onwards. It’s available, along with a lot of other long-run data, from The Bank of England. Here’s an animation of the series. I sometimes use this as a scene-setter when teaching social theory. It’s great because, in addition to the basic story that the series tells (which I find the animation brings out very nicely), it also naturally invites questions about the nature of the data itself.

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