The Exchequer’s Guide to Population Ecology and Resource Exploitation in the Agrarian State

• Published in: Cliodynamics : the journal of theoretical and mathematical history Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 40 - 83
• Main Authors: Winterhalder, Bruce P., Puleston, Cedric O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland University of California Digital Library - eScholarship 2018; eScholarship Publishing, University of California
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Density; Ecology; Equilibrium; Exploitation; Extinction; Mismanagement; Population growth; Taxation
• ISSN: 2373-7530; 2373-7530
• DOI: 10.21237/C7CLIO9239095

We adopt an imagined exchequer, the functionary responsible in an early polity for securing resources from its agrarian subjects, and we develop a feature-rich demographic and environmental model to explore the population ecology of agricultural production in the context of population growth, Malthu...