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State stability

N. Koepke & J. Baten, The biological standards of living in Europe during the last two millennia, European Review of Economic History 9, 2005, 76. Factors that are correlated with or obscure (or merely exaggerate?) change in population size. Other exogenous factors. Climate.

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State stability

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  1. N. Koepke & J. Baten, The biological standards of living in Europe during the last two millennia, European Review of Economic History 9, 2005, 76

  2. Factors that are correlated with or obscure (or merely exaggerate?) change in population size Other exogenous factors Climate State stability Disease environment Population growth City number & size Recorded population (? Cultural features not directly related to state stability) (? Economic performance not directly related to state stability or climate)

  3. C. Chu & R. Lee, Famine, revolt, and the dynastic cycle: population dynamics in historic China, Journal of Population Economics 7, 1994, 354

  4. P. Turchin, Historical dynamics: why states rise and fall, Princeton 2003, 165

  5. Apparent population size Actual population size ?

  6. S. Alcock, Graecia Capta: The landscapes of Roman Greece, Cambridge 1993, 42-4

  7. K. Sbonias, Investigating the interface between regional survey, historical demography and paleodemography, in J. Bintliff & K. Sbonias (eds), Reconstructing past population trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000 BC – AD 1800), Oxford 1999, 225

  8. Select Roman census figures, 279 BCE-47 CE (raw data, in 1,000)

  9. G. G. Aperghis, The Seleukid royal economy, Cambridge 2004, 56-7

  10. E. Lo Cascio & P. Malanima, Cycles and stability: Italian population before the Demographic Transition (225 B.C. – A.D. 1900), Rivista di Storia Economica 21, 2005

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