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Decker, C.S., Reuveny, R. Endogenous Technological Progress and the Malthusian Trap: Could Simon and Boserup Have Saved Easter Island?. Hum Ecol 33, 119–140 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-005-1657-z
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