Notes and References for: Lecture Notes: Introduction to Economic History: The Ancient Economy
Lecture Notes: Introduction to Economic History: The Ancient Economy
1: The Biggest-Picture Perspective
1.1: The Old and Middle Stone Ages:
- Doug Jones (2014-2019): Logarithmic History https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/
- Doug Jones (2019): Puttin' on the Ritz https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2019/07/21/
- David Kaplan (2000): The Darker Side of the "Original Affluent Society" https://delong.typepad.com/files/kaplan-darker.pdf
- Marshall Sahlins (1972): The Original Affluent Society https://delong.typepad.com/files/original-affluent-society.pdf
- Marshall Sahlins (1972): Stone Age Economics https://delong.typepad.com/files/stone-age-economics.pdf
- Richard Wrangham (2019): The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution http://books.google.com/?isbn=1101870907
1.1: The Old and Middle Stone Ages Notes:
1.2: An Index of Human Technological and Organizational Capabilities
- John Maynard Keynes (1936): The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- Solow-Malthus Growth Model Notebook: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/braddelong/LS2019/blob/master/2019-09-06-210a-ancient-intro.ipynb
1.3: The Neolithic Revolution, and After
1.4: After the Ancient Economy: Speedup and Explosion
1.5: Rates of Growth
2: The Solow-Malthus Model
2.1: The Basic Solow Setup
2.2 Determining the Equilibrium Capital-Output Ratio 𝜅∗
2.3: Determining Steady-State Growth-Path Production per Worker
2.4: Malthus: Population, Resource Scarcity, and the Efficiency of Labor
2.5: Determinants of Population and Labor Force Growth
2.6: The Full Equilibrium
2.7: Interpretation and Analysis
2.8: Model Simulation Experiments
3: Using the Framework
3.1: Slow Growth of Technology
3.1.1: The Solow-Malthus Framework
