Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Perspective on Economic DevelopmentInterdisciplinary research monograph on world economic growth and poverty, contending that ecological disequilibrium has been the driving force behind economic development, both in the presentday developing countries and in the historical period of development in the UK and the USA - considers the combined impact of population growth and natural resources scarcity in spurring development, and covers industrialization, Innovation and technological change, underdevelopment, etc. References. |
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An ecological model | 1 |
Cultural evolution | 9 |
Ecological equilibrium | 18 |
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Abipones abortion agricultural American animal areas basic became become behaviour capital cent chapter clothing coal consumer context cost cotton crops cultivation cultural evolution cultural system demand E. A. Wrigley ecological equilibrium ecological niche ecological problems economic development economic efficiency economic system eighteenth century England environment environmental exploitation expansion factors factors of production fallow fertility forced fuel growing homeostatic human Ibid important improvements income increase increasingly industrial revolution industrial societies infanticide innovations labour productivity land Leblanc process limited living London manufacturing materials ment nineteenth century partible inheritance particular period ploughing population control population density population growth population pressure poverty practical pre-industrial primitive societies productive system pump resource-base says scarcity shortage situation social society's soil sources stability steam substitution supply taboos technical change technical consistency techniques theory Tikopia timber tion traditional transport urban village wages wood workload