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Population and economy : from hunger to modern economic growth
- Title
- Population and economy : from hunger to modern economic growth / edited by T. Bengtsson and O. Saito.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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- Description
- viii, 499 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This volume looks at how Malthus's 'Essay on the Principle of Population' has been a source of debate on relationships between population and economy for the last two centuries. It highlights new empirical findings and developing new arguments.
- Subject
- Population > Economic aspects > Congresses
- Congrès
- Histoire économique
- Analyse démographique
- Développement économique
- Aspects socio-économiques
- Analyse comparative
- Population > Economic aspects
- Bevölkerungswachstum
- Demographie
- Kindersterblichkeit
- Malthusianismus
- Kongress
- Population > Aspect économique > Congrès
- Amériques
- Asie
- Europe
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- "Prepared for Session A2 of the Twelfth International Economic History Congress, Madrid 24-28 August 1998"--Acknowledgements.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- What determined the onset of modern progress in the standard of living? / Julian L. Simon -- Short-run and secular demographic response to fluctuations in the standard of living in England, 1540-1834 / Roger Schofield -- Population, poverty, and subsistence in China, 1700-2000 / James Z. Lee and Wang Feng with Li Bozhong -- Population growth and population regulation in nineteenth-century rural Scotland / Michael Anderson -- Infant mortality, child neglect, and child abandonment in European history: a comparative analysis / Katherine A. Lynch -- Malthus and North American: was the United States subject to economic-demographic crises? / Michael R. Haines -- Malthus revisited: exploring medium-range interactions between economic and demographic forces in historic Europe / David S. Reher and José Antonio Ortega Osona -- Malthus in Latin America: demographic responses during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Alberto Palloni, Hector Pérez-Brignoli, and Elizabeth Arias -- Structural factors affecting the short-term positive check in Croatia, Slavonia, and Srem in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / E.A. Hammel and Patrick R. Galloway -- Determinants of mortality variability in historical populations and its behavioural and aggregate consequences / José Antonio Ortega Osona -- Inequality in death: effects of the agrarian revolution in southern Sweden, 1765-1865 / Tommy Bengtsson -- Mortality and economic stress: individual and household responses in a nineteenth-century Belgian village / George Alter and Michael Oris -- Price fluctuations, family structure, and mortality in two rural Chinese populations: household responses to economic stress in eighteenth and nineteenth century Liaoning / Cameron D. Campbell and James Z. Lee -- Mortality responses to short term economic stress and household context in early modern Japan: evidence from two northeastern villages / Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu -- Infant mortality in nineteenth century Italy: interactions between ecology and society / Marco Breschi, Renzo Derosas, and Matteo Manfredini.
- ISBN
- 0198296533
- 9780198296539
- LCCN
- 00057423
- OCLC
- ocm44502467
- 44502467
- SCSB-14650560
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library