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Population and Economy
From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth
Edited by Bengtsson and Saito
512 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926184-0
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Paperback
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03 April 2003
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- Reassesses Malthus for the new century
- Multi-disciplinary approach to the founder of population studies
- Sets a new standard in this active and influential field of research
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 a historical perspective. This book 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 part 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, which is 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.
Readership: Academics and professionals: demographers, population historians, economic historians, social historians, historians of the family, historical anthropologists.
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Edited by Bengtsson, Professor of Economic History, Lund University, and Saito, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University Contributors:
George Alter (Indiana University)
Michael Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Elizabeth Arias (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Tommy Bengtsson (Odense University/Lund University)
Marco Breschi (University of Udine)
Cameron D. Campbell (University of California, Los Angeles)
Renzo Derosas (Universita Ca'Foscari di Venezia)
Patrick Galloway (University of California, Berkeley)
Michael R. Haines (Colgate University)
E. A. Hammel (University of California, Berkeley)
Satomi Kurosu (Reitaku University)
James Z. Lee (California Institute of Technology)
Li Bozhong (Qinghua University)
Katherine A. Lynch (Carnegie Mellon University)
Matteo Manfredini (University of Udine)
Michael Oris (University of Liege/University of Geneva)
Jose Antonio Ortega Osona (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Alberto Palloni (University of Wisconsin)
Hector Perez Brignoli (University of Costa Rica)
David S. Reher (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University)
Roger Schofield (Cambridge University)
Julian Simon
(Late of the University of Maryland at College Park)
Noriko O. Tsuya (Keio University)
Wang Feng (University of California, Irvine)
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Tommy Bengtsson and Osamu Saito: Introduction
1: Julian Simon: What Determined the Onset of Modern Progress in the Standard of Living
2: Roger Schofield: Short-run and Secular Demographic Response to Fluctuations in the Standard of Living in England, 1540-1834
3: James Z. Lee and Wang Feng, with Li Bozhong: Population, Poverty, and Subsistence in China, 1700-2000
4: Michael Anderson: Population Growth and Population Regulation in Nineteenth Century Rural Scotland
5: Katherine A. Lynch: Infant Mortality, Child Neglect, and Child Abandonment in European History: A Comparative Analysis
6: Michael R. Haines: Malthus and North America: Was the United States Subject to Economic-Demographic Crises?
7: David S. Reher and Jose Antonio Ortega Osona: Malthus Revisited: Exploring Medium-Range Interactions between Economic and Demographic Forces in Historic Europe
8: Alberto Palloni, Hector Perez Brignoli, and Elizabeth Arias: Malthus in Latin America: Demographic Responses during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
9: E. A. Hammel and Patrick Galloway: Structural Factors Affecting the Short-term Positive Check in Croatia, Slavonia, and Srem in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
10: Jose Antonio Ortega Osona: Determinants of Mortality Variability in Historical Populations and its Behavioural and Aggregate Consequences
11: Tommy Bengtsson: Inequality in Death: Effects of the Agrarian Revolution in Southern Sweden, 1765-1865
12: George Alter and Michael Oris: Mortality and Economic Stress: Individual and Household Responses in a Nineteenth-Century Belgian Village
13: Cameron D. Campbell and James Z. Lee: Price Fluctuations, Family Structure, and Mortality in Two Rural Chinese Populations: Household Responses to Economic Stress in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Liaoning
14: Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu: Mortality Responses to Short-term Economic Stress and Household Context in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages
15: Marco Breschi, Renzo Derosas, and Matteo Manfredini: Infant Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Interactions between Ecology and Society
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