<P> İslamoğlu - İnan in her work on the peasants of Corum and Sivas takes an alternative view arguing an increase in population increased economic growth, cultivating more market - oriented crops as their numbers increased, rather than stunting it . </P> <P> McCloskey argued that an increase in population should increase the volume of transactions and economic activity and lead to a decline in prices . (Comparatively, historians argue one of the factors of Britain's industrial revolution was a population increase growing from 7.5 million to 18 million in the late 18th century .) Pamuk however highlights Morineau's recent research with specie flows into Europe continuing to increase during the 17th century even after prices declined, casting doubts on the causality of inflation by bullion inflows . </P>

Reasons for the collapse of the ottoman empire