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POPULATION AND ECONOMY
FROM HUNGER TO MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH |
| By: |
Tommy Bengtsson (Editor), Osamu Saito (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£82.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198296533 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198296539 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 August, 2000 |
| Pages: |
509 |
| Description: |
How did people adjust imbalances between population and food? How did households respond to economic stress caused by the death of the father? Did, in the long run, past societies possess adjustment mechanisms between population and economic resources? In order to answer these much-debated questions since the age of Malthus, the contributors to this volume offer new evidence and develop new arguments by applying sophisticated methodologies to exploit new kinds ofsource material. |
| Synopsis: |
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 essaysDSan outcome of an A-session held at the 12th International Congress of Economic History in Madrid, 1998DSsets 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. |
| Illustrations: |
numerous tables and graphs |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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