Econ 210a: Fall 2006: Post-Neolithic Pre-Industrial Economies: Recommended, Highly Optional, Readings

Recommended (but not required: only for those of you with great interest and copious amounts of spare time) readings for October 18:

• William Godwin (1793), "An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/godwin/PJfrontpiece.html
• Thomas R. Malthus (1795), "An Essay on the Principle of Population" http://www.econlib.org/library/Malthus/malPlong.html
• Paul R. Ehrlich (1968), The Population Bomb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
• Peter H. Lindert (1986), "Unequal English Wealth since 1670," The Journal of Political Economy 94:6 (December), pp. 1127-1162 http://www.jstor.org/view/00223808/di951041/95p0070r/0
• Michael Kremer (1993), "Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990," Quarterly Journal of Economics 108:3 (August), pp. 681-716 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533%28199308%29108%3A3%3C681%3APGATCO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
• Richard H. Steckel (1995), "Stature and the Standard of Living," Journal of Economic Literature 33:4 (December), pp. 1903-1940 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0515%28199512%2933%3A4%3C1903%3ASATSOL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
• J. Bradford DeLong (1998), "Estimates of World GDP, One Million B.C. – Present " http://delong.typepad.com/print/20061012_LRWGDP.pdf
• Gregory Clark (2004), "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Living Costs of the Rich versus the Poor in England, 1209-1869" http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/papers/clark.pdf#search=%22clark%20lifestyles%20of%20the%20rich%20and%20famous%22
• Kenneth Arrow et al. (2004), "Are We Consuming too Much?" http://www.atypon-link.com/AEAP/doi/pdf/10.1257/0895330042162377
• Gregory Clark (2005), "Living Standards in the Malthusian Era," chapter 3 of The Conquest of Nature http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/GlobalHistory/Global%20History-3.pdf