Gregory Clark and Oded Galor with their views on the importance of fertility behavior for human capital formation and innovation cannot explain such seemingly anomalous development where high increase in population does not produce more innovations, or decline in fertility does not improve investment in skills: “unified growth theory has nothing to offer historians” That's certainly not the main argument of Clark.
Commented on your Pomeranz article as well, but ... Have you encountered the recent synthesis of the last two decades of new data pertaining to the debate from Stephen Broadberry? (Short article in VoxEU from this past April.)
Thanks a lot for this reference. I of course know Broadberry's work (and Zanden's, they are complementary) but this synthetic piece is really excellent.
Gregory Clark and Oded Galor with their views on the importance of fertility behavior for human capital formation and innovation cannot explain such seemingly anomalous development where high increase in population does not produce more innovations, or decline in fertility does not improve investment in skills: “unified growth theory has nothing to offer historians” That's certainly not the main argument of Clark.
Commented on your Pomeranz article as well, but ... Have you encountered the recent synthesis of the last two decades of new data pertaining to the debate from Stephen Broadberry? (Short article in VoxEU from this past April.)
https://voxeu.org/article/accounting-great-divergence-recent-findings-historical-national-accounting
Thanks a lot for this reference. I of course know Broadberry's work (and Zanden's, they are complementary) but this synthetic piece is really excellent.