Tag!
2008-03-06 · Original WordPress address
Gabriel tagged me. I have to:
- Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the next three sentences.
- Tag five people.
Let's see. Right on top of Landes' Wealth and Poverty of Nations, on my desk we've got UC San Diego's copy of Peter Turchin's Historical Dynamics:
The typical dynamics of the demographic-fiscal model are shown in Figure 7.1a. Starting with the initial value of S = 0 and population numbers N = k_0/2, the model predicts that intially both N and S will grow. As S increases, so does the carrying capacity k(S), which quickly approaches the upper limit k_max.
I'm going to throw this one to the non-econ-blogosphere: Gavin, Scott, Fumiko, Kevin and Yoko, you're it!