Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each pre-industrial concept to its definition.
- Malthusian trap
- Subsistence
- Proto-industrialisation
- Organic economy
- All energy from recent photosynthesis
- Population absorbs all productivity gains
- Rural households producing for distant markets
- The income floor that just sustains the population
Hints
- Separate the constraint from the mechanism from the outcome.
- One term names the income level at which population stops growing.
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- Malthusian trap → Population absorbs all productivity gains
- Subsistence → The income floor that just sustains the population
- Proto-industrialisation → Rural households producing for distant markets
- Organic economy → All energy from recent photosynthesis
Why
Four concepts that defined the world before 1750, a world where progress meant more mouths, not richer mouths.
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