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During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner
in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his
survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners
who were willing to go into exile and to the help of friends on the
outside who helped him obtain a visa. He fled to Sweden before
coming to the United States in 1941. In 1943, he completed The The
Society of Terror, based on his experiences in Dachau and
Buchenwald. He embarked on a long career teaching sociology and
statistics at universities in the United States and later in Vienna
until his death in September 2001.After liberation, the horrific
images of the extermination camps abounded from Dachau, Buchenwald,
and other places. Neurath's chillingly factual discussion of his
experience as an inmate and his astute observations of the
conditions and the social structures in Dachau and Buchenwald
captivate the reader, not only because of their authenticity, but
also because of the work's proximity to the events and the absence
of influence of later interpretations. His account is unique also
because of the exceptional links Neurath establishes between
personal experience and theoretical reflection, the persistent
oscillation between the distanced and sober view of the scientist
and that of the prisoner.
During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner
in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his
survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners
who were willing to go into exile and to the help of friends on the
outside who helped him obtain a visa. He fled to Sweden before
coming to the United States in 1941. In 1943, he completed The The
Society of Terror, based on his experiences in Dachau and
Buchenwald. He embarked on a long career teaching sociology and
statistics at universities in the United States and later in Vienna
until his death in September 2001.After liberation, the horrific
images of the extermination camps abounded from Dachau, Buchenwald,
and other places. Neurath's chillingly factual discussion of his
experience as an inmate and his astute observations of the
conditions and the social structures in Dachau and Buchenwald
captivate the reader, not only because of their authenticity, but
also because of the work's proximity to the events and the absence
of influence of later interpretations. His account is unique also
because of the exceptional links Neurath establishes between
personal experience and theoretical reflection, the persistent
oscillation between the distanced and sober view of the scientist
and that of the prisoner.
This collection of articles on population growth spans 20 years of
the author's thinking and research on a wide range of issues. The
book opens with a presentation of the early history of demography
before Thomas Malthus wrote his essay on the principles of
population (1798) that marked the beginnings of modern demography
as a science. The author follows up with a chapter on the estimates
made at various times in the past hundred years about the maximum
number of people who could live on earth. Four papers deal with the
debates about global models of population growth and the limits to
growth. Sharp swings in population policy in China from the
Communist Revolution under Mao in 1949 to the one child-per-family
rule in 1979 are also considered. Another chapter compares
population policy in Japan, China and India. A chapter is devoted
to the role of oil and the soaring price of this basic input into
agriculture as a constraint on food production and, as a result, on
population growth. A closing chapter considers the great migrations
of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the transatlantic and
transpacific movements, the mass migrations after World Wars I and
II, and those of recent decades. This book will interest scholars
and students in economics and other social sciences dealing with
the issues of demography, population growth, and economic
development.
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