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If the supply of food (and other goods and services) cannot be expanded at all, or
can be expanded only slowly, painfully, and at the cost of decreasing marginal
returns to extra inputs of labour and capital, then, since what Malthus termed 'the
...
If the supply of food (and other goods and services) cannot be expanded at all, or
can be expanded only slowly, painfully, and at the cost of decreasing marginal
returns to extra inputs of labour and capital, then, since what Malthus termed 'the
...
Page 9
At the end of the year the servant received a lump sum in part payment for his or
her labour, the balance having been taken in kind in the course of the year. A
period in service was the normal lot of children in the poorer groups in society but
it ...
At the end of the year the servant received a lump sum in part payment for his or
her labour, the balance having been taken in kind in the course of the year. A
period in service was the normal lot of children in the poorer groups in society but
it ...
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Numbers increased inexorably. The labour market became oversupplied and self
-exploitation and immiseration, to use terms often employed in the debate,
increased steadily. l 18J There is nothing wrong with the internal logic of this
model of ...
Numbers increased inexorably. The labour market became oversupplied and self
-exploitation and immiseration, to use terms often employed in the debate,
increased steadily. l 18J There is nothing wrong with the internal logic of this
model of ...
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| Title | The Local and the General in Population History Volume 16 of Harte lecture Volume 16 of Harte lecture, delivered in the University of Exeter Volume 16 of The Harte memorial lecture in local history |
| Author | Edward Anthony Wrigley |
| Publisher | University of Exeter, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2007 |
| ISBN | 0859892379, 9780859892377 |
| Length | 19 pages |
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