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“Long before the formalisation of the Demographic Transition Model, scholars had proposed social and economic explanations that anticipated its key ideas.” Elaborate.

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  • Population Geography

The Demographic Transition Model holds that societies move from high birth and death rates to low ones as modernisation proceeds. Its formal statement belongs to the twentieth century, but its core propositions — that fertility answers to social and economic circumstance rather than to biology, that prosperity depresses it, and that ambition and schooling suppress…

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  • The Classical Economists: Fertility as a Response to Livelihood
  • Malthus and the Preventive Check
  • Ricardo and Mill on Wages and Family Size
  • The Anti-Malthusians: Prosperity and Nutrition Against Fertility
  • The Social Explanations: Mobility, Aspiration and Institutions
  • Dumont's Social Capillarity
  • …and 4 more sections, with a conclusion

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