| The Great Wave - Economic
cycles following Malthusian boom-bust cycles
(environmental overshoot) Adapted from:The
Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History,
David Hackett Fischer, ISBN 0-19-512121-X
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The "Revolutionary" wave in Europe
- 1650 - 1800
The "Victorian equilibrium" - stabilization after Crisis
by slow population growth, rapid technological advance.
The "price revolution" (inflation) of the 20th century -
rising population, falling incomes, possibly heading to
ecological "overshoot" of Earth's carrying capacity
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