Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2016, 64(6), 2053-2058 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201664062053

Death Rates in the Calorie Model

Martin Machay
Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The Calorie model unifies the Classical demand and the supply in the food market. Hence, solves the major problem of Classical stationary state. It is, hence, formalization of the Classical theory of population. The model does not reflect the imperfections of reality mentioned by Malthus himself. It is the aim of this brief paper to relax some of the strong assumptions of the Calorie model to make it more realistic. As the results show the political economists were correct. The death resulting from malnutrition can occur way sooner than the stationary state itself. Moreover, progressive and retrograde movements can be easily described by the death rate derived in the paper.
JEL Classification: J11, Q11, Q15, Q21, Y90.

Keywords: stationary state, food, population, the calorie model, Malthus

Prepublished online: December 21, 2016; Published: January 1, 2017  Show citation

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Machay, M. (2016). Death Rates in the Calorie Model. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(6), 2053-2058. doi: 10.11118/actaun201664062053
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