Fascinating

Posted on 2004-10-04 at 08:02

From Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World:

So the implication seems to be that the discovery of the New World and the second Agricultural Revolution (or events thereabout) caused the elbow-bend in population growth by stemming the tide of deaths from hunger?