##Step 1: Use an exaggerated Hajnal line

The idea is that your country would have women marrying late. Late marriage means that both partners go in with a relatively large resource endowment, and then distribute it across relatively few children.

Having relatively few children would prevent a Malthusian catastrophe, where the popluation expands into a pauperized class living at the limits of what can be supported by the land and then falls due to war or disease.

##Step 2: Good property rights Have a early and wide-sweeping Magna Carta or an Icelandic-style Althing, which is to say political representation of all property holders. Bonus points if you include women, either as widows or as pre-marriage freeholders.

Having a strong political voice by the plucky freeholders will serve to slow or even reverse the encroachment by the richer landholders against the commons or individual farms.

Step 3: Early life insurance

Widows and orphans rely on a social safety net based on insurance payments. This prevents people from slipping into poverty due to the unavoidable medical disasters of a pre-antibiotic world. There is literally nothing about this that could not have been done as far back as Sumeria, it's just that nobody thought about it before the 1700s in Europe.

Step 1: Use an exaggerated Hajnal line

The idea is that your country would have women marrying late. Late marriage means that both partners go in with a relatively large resource endowment, and then distribute it across relatively few children.

Having relatively few children would prevent a Malthusian catastrophe, where the popluation expands into a pauperized class living at the limits of what can be supported by the land and then falls due to war or disease.

Step 2: Good property rights

Have a early and wide-sweeping Magna Carta or an Icelandic-style Althing, which is to say political representation of all property holders. Bonus points if you include women, either as widows or as pre-marriage freeholders.

Having a strong political voice by the plucky freeholders will serve to slow or even reverse the encroachment by the richer landholders against the commons or individual farms.

Step 3: Early life insurance

Widows and orphans rely on a social safety net based on insurance payments. This prevents people from slipping into poverty due to the unavoidable medical disasters of a pre-antibiotic world. There is literally nothing about this that could not have been done as far back as Sumeria, it's just that nobody thought about it before the 1700s in Europe.

##Step 1: Use an exaggerated Hajnal line

The idea is that your country would have women marrying late. Late marriage means that both partners go in with a relatively large resource endowment, and then distribute it across relatively few children.

Having relatively few children would prevent a Malthusian catastrophe, where the popluation expands into a pauperized class living at the limits of what can be supported by the land and then falls due to war or disease.

##Step 2: Good property rights Have a early and wide-sweeping Magna Carta or an Icelandic-style Althing, which is to say political representation of all property holders. Bonus points if you include women, either as widows or as pre-marriage freeholders.

Having a strong political voice by the plucky freeholders will serve to slow or even reverse the encroachment by the richer landholders against the commons or individual farms.

Step 3: Early life insurance

Widows and orphans rely on a social safety net based on insurance payments. This prevents people from slipping into poverty due to the unavoidable medical distasters of a pre-antibiotic world. There is literally nothing about this that could not have been done as far back as Sumeria, it's just that nobody thought about it before the 1700s in Europe.

##Step 1: Use an exaggerated Hajnal line

The idea is that your country would have women marrying late. Late marriage means that both partners go in with a relatively large resource endowment, and then distribute it across relatively few children.

Having relatively few children would prevent a Malthusian catastrophe, where the popluation expands into a pauperized class living at the limits of what can be supported by the land and then falls due to war or disease.

##Step 2: Good property rights Have a early and wide-sweeping Magna Carta or an Icelandic-style Althing, which is to say political representation of all property holders. Bonus points if you include women, either as widows or as pre-marriage freeholders.

Having a strong political voice by the plucky freeholders will serve to slow or even reverse the encroachment by the richer landholders against the commons or individual farms.

Step 3: Early life insurance

Widows and orphans rely on a social safety net based on insurance payments. This prevents people from slipping into poverty due to the unavoidable medical disasters of a pre-antibiotic world. There is literally nothing about this that could not have been done as far back as Sumeria, it's just that nobody thought about it before the 1700s in Europe.