With the publication of The Population History of England in 1981
it has become possible for the first time to trace in detail the
demographic changes that occurred in a major European country
throughout the early modern period and during the industrial
revolution. It is therefore also now possible to test our
understanding of the functioning of early modern economies in
relation to their demographic patterns against the new empirical
data. The discussion of this historical theme, first initiated by
Malthus in the late eighteenth century, can now be taken a
substantial step further. All of the essays published here take
advantage of this new possibility, either by using the English data
themselves, or by reflecting on the implications of a comparison
between English patterns and those found elsewhere. The essays
contribute not only to a richer understanding of the relationships
in the past between population and economy, but also to a fuller
appreciation of the circumstances that limited economic growth in
pre-industrial economies and with the train of events that led to
the escape from these constraints with the industrial revolution.
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