Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
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Anthropometry
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Birth rate
Birth weight
Business cycle
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Capital accumulation
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Demographic history
Demographic transition
Demography
Development economics
Early modern Europe
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Economic growth
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Fertility
Friedrich Engels
Gerald Friedman (economist)
German Historical School
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Human height
Ifood (isotopic food)
Income
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Income elasticity of demand
Industrial Revolution
Industrialisation
Infant mortality
Joseph Schumpeter
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Life expectancy
Lower Austria
Malnutrition
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Moses Abramovitz
Nobility
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Political economy
Population dynamics
Population growth
Pre-industrial society
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Thomas Robert Malthus
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- ISBN 9780691632896
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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John Komlos examines the industrial expansion of Austria from a fresh viewpoint and develops a new model for the industrial revolution. By integrating recent advances in the study of human biology and nutrition as they relate to physical stature, population growth, and levels of economic development, he reveals an intense Malthusian crisis in the Habsburg lands during the second half of the eighteenth century. At that time food shortages brought about by the accelerated population growth of the 1730s forced the government to adopt a reform program that opened the way for the beginning of the industrial revolution in Austria and in the Czech Crownlands. Comparing this "Austrian model" of economic growth to the industrial revolution in Britain, Komlos argues that the model is general enough to explain demographic and economic growth elsewhere in Europe--despite obvious regional differences. The main feature of the model is the interplay between a persistent, even if small, tendency to accumulate capital and a population with an underlying tendency to grow in numbers while remaining subject to Malthusian checks, particularly a limited availability of food.
According to Komlos, modern economic growth in Europe began when the food constraint was finally lifted. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
