4. From the Malthusian Trap to the Industrial Revolution: An Explanation of Social Evolution

I. Economic Theory

For economic theory the question of how to increase wealth and get rich has a straightforward answer.

Part One: Human Development, Property, and Politics

3. The Origin of Private Property and the Family

I. The Setting: History

It is reasonable to begin human history 5 million years ago, when the human line of evolutionary descent separated from that of our closest non-human relative, the chimpanzee. It is also reasonable to begin it 2.5 million years ago, with the first appearance of Homo habilis; or 200,000 years ago, when the first representative of “anatomically modern man” madehits appearance; or 100,000 years ago, when the anatomically modern man had become the standard human form.