The Great Agrarian-Age Vine-&-Fig Tree Shortage
Humanity Ensorcelled by the Devil of Malthus...
Humanity Ensorcelled by the Devil of Malthus...
The post-agriculture post-metalworking pre-industrialization pre-globalization human economy is a good place to start our narrative of the history of economic growth. So let us ask: What was human life like in the long bronze and iron agrarian-ages, after the discovery of metals but before reliable trans-oceanic travel, in the years from, say, -3000 to 1500?
The answer is that there was a pronounced and general human vine-and-fig-tree shortage.
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