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Their wordsPrior 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.
Their wordsWhat I’m nitpicking here is that this decline in fertility deserves equal billing with the research lab, corporation, and globalization.
Their wordsIt was an acceleration in productivity combined with a decline in population growth that put us on a slow trudge towards utopia.
Their wordsWithout this anti-Malthusian response the research lab, corporation, and globalization cannot provide sustained growth.
Their wordsThe key change is that productivity growth, starting around 1870, reached down and profoundly raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.