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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.

Drawn from what Dietrich Vollrath said

Subjectdemographics
What this subject means

demographics Who there will be: birth rates, population decline, and what a shrinking cohort does to everything downstream.

What Dietrich Vollrath actually said

  1. Dietrich Vollrath Growth economist at the University of Houston and author of Fully Grown
    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.

    Where this was said

    ↗Review of DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia"growthecon.com

    11 Oct 2022

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