Population and Economy - From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth (Hardcover)

Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population has for the past two centuries been a constant source of inspiration and debate for scholars working on relationships between population and economy in historical perspective. This book of collected essays-an outcome of an A-session held at the 12th International Congress of Economic History in Madrid, 1998-sets a new standard in this active and influential field of research. The contributors go beyond the conventional European and North American geographical boundaries, bringing out new empirical findings and developing new arguments. The volume is divided into three parts. The first section takes up classical issues, the 'positive' and the 'preventive' checks and their determinants, raised by Malthus himself, and examines the issues against fresh evidence from Europe, America, and Asia. These issues are also themes of the second part, devoted to short-term fluctuations in mortality and fertility in relation to prices, wages, and other economic indicators. The final set of chapters is a coherent collection of technically sophisticated articles from an on-going international joint project concerned with how households respond to economic stress in different economic, social and cultural settings, in traditional China, Japan, Sweden, Belgium and Italy. With a brief but well organized introduction, this collection of scholarly essays offers both demographers and economic historians a wealth of exciting findings and stimulating insights.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2003
First published:	August 2000
Editors:	Tommy Bengtsson (Associate Professor, Department of Economic History) • Osamu Saito (Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research)
Dimensions:	242 x 164 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	509
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-829653-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General
LSN:	0-19-829653-3
Barcode:	9780198296539

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