Symbol C_t

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…enough to write down, and writing them down exposes an assumption that verbal accounts tend to hide. Let the stock carried into the next period be $S_{t+1} = (1-\delta)\,S_t + H_t - C_t - T_t$. where $S_t$ is the stock held, $H_t$ the harvest added, $C_t$ own consumption, $T_t$ the quantity appropriated by others, and $\delta$ the proportional loss rate to pests, damp and spoilage. The equation is illustrative rather than estimated, and its value is that it separates two subtractions usually conflated. Grain that rots is gone; grain that is taken…

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