Reddit mentions of The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)

Production Values = 10

Lyrical Meter = 8

Historical accuracy = 3.4

It's telling that the Mont Perelin society still pushes this narrative as if Ludvig Von ("The Merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history") Mises was taken seriously in his day or since.

Marx is like a welterweight runner-up and Von Mises is still trying to auction off his sweaty towels. Marx indirectly launched the Russian Revolution. Von Mises got a part-time job at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce.

But yeah totally, sure, the "Marginal Revolution" was a real revolution and not at all far-right historical revisionism.

"In 1820 everyone was poor". It's scary how good these lyricists are at presenting just how deluded conservatives really are. As if those famines were gonna hit any day now. real history suggest otherwise

That's not necessarily true. I can't claim to know what life expectancy was like for every culture, but I think we can agree that for most cultures, healthy individuals died naturally at a younger age than we do today- ignoring infant mortality rates. My only formal reading on the subject is The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death and some casual reading on local tribal cultures in California. The Escape from Hunger and Premature death uses data from European army medical records (primarily) spanning from 1700-modern day. Early mortality (35-40) is more a result of chronic malnutrition and poor medical technology. Based on my limited understanding, I would say that native cultures were better off (versus 1700s Europeans) in terms of nutrition/hygiene, but not in terms of predation. They were maybe equal in terms of disease- can't really say.

Anyway, I'd like to see a source for your claim.

>Dying in fires and then getting fired for your burns and replaced with an orphan worker because too many parents were compaining about their children dying because of harsh working conditions is not a higher living standard.

It certainly was compared to perpetual malnourishment, famines, and random death by warlord. You fail to understand how desperately poor the world was before the industrial revolution.

>Civil war Medicine

First of all, your timeline is a little off. there were plenty of people, like Florence Nightingale, preaching sanitation before the American Civil war. But there is a deeper point. Do you really think that, in in the more than two thousands years between Hippocrates and the Civil War, there wasn't a single doctor who spent time with barbers and surgeons? That this contact didn't exist during, say, the 30 years war which killed as much as third of the population of Germany, or the Napoleonic Wars which saw the death of at least 3 million soldiers? If so, you actually have a bigger problem. What revolution in society occurred between 1815 and 1850 that allowed an information exchange that hadn't happened for literally thousands of years?

>Urbanization turned back the clock on human survivability by taking away the ability of any given human being to support himself left to his own devices.

Then why did life expectancy grow so fast during the 19th, and twentieth centuries, the first period in history when the percentage of the population working as farmers dropped below ~90%?

>There was a massive false advertising campaign lead in Europe to promote immigration with the explicit intent of bloating the labor market and pushing wages below the starvation mark

If wages were below the starvation mark, one would think that there would have been massive starvation in urban america. There wasn't. Especially since enormous numbers of immigrants took advantage of cheap western land.