Taking stock of malthus: Modeling the collapse of historical civilizations

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 303-329

  Reuveny, Rafael ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

endogenous population; global warming; innovation; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873148493     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-110811-114537     Document Type: Article

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