The New World’s Contribution to Food Consumption during the Industrial Revolution

John Komlos

Articles by John Komlos from Department of Economics, University of Munich

Abstract: The discovery of the New World enabled the nutritional status of the European populations to be maintained sufficiently to avoid a major Malthusian catastrophe as in prior centuries.

Keywords: nutritional status; Americas; Malthusian trap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 N31 N33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in Journal of European Economic History, 1998, 27(1), 67-84

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