Hello and welcome to Broeconomics. Now in this episode I'm going to be sticking with the theme of last week

and we're going to be looking at this civil unrest a little bit more but in the last episode it was a bit more

heartfelt it was a bit more reacting to the events as

they had folded saying some things that needed to be said. In this one I kind of

wanted to look at more the hard practical realities.

I've got lots of numbers in this, lots of graphs.

What actually are the government's options?

Why are they behaving like this?

How strong is their hand.

Spoiler, not particularly strong.

So economics of civil unrest,

I'm going to start with perhaps the key indicator that I found predicting civil unrest.

This is a chart that shows the red line is the growth in population and the blue line is real GDP per worker

so you know per capita GDP or you could look at it as the income level per the individual. And for those of you are listening,

basically they're opening up like alligator jaws. So population is going up,

straight up and to the right, real GDP per worker or the income per worker is going down

straight down and to the right and it's opening up an enormous gap between the two. Now this particular chart is actually for Canada,

it doesn't matter, it's the same chart for the UK, and I found a whole bunch of basically this indicator for a whole bunch of different situations

and going right back to the French Revolution, a absolute swave of periods of strong civil unrest have had this chart.

Now I did think briefly about trying to mess it all together and

overlaying it, but it was was the data was all in such different

formats it would have been a hell of a job to do it so I just thought I'll take the

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