The wealth -> life history -> innovation account of the industrial revolution is largely inconsistent with empirical time series data.

摘要: Baumard proposes a model to explain the dramatic rise in innovation that occurred during Industrial Revolution, whereby rising living standards led slower life history strategies, which, turn, fostered innovation. We test his explicitly using time series data, finding limited support for these proposed linkages. Instead, we find evidence appear have time-lagged bidirectional relationship with increasing