Population and Economy
From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth
Published on 31. August 2000
Book
Hardback
509 pages
978-0-19-829653-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous tables and graphs
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
928 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-829653-9 (9780198296539)
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Persons
Tommy Bengtsson is Associate Professor of Economic History at Lund University. He is currently also Guest Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology.
Osamu Saito is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University.
Osamu Saito is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University.
Content
Introduction ; 1. What Determined the Onset of Modern Progress in the Standard of Living ; 2. Short-run and Secular Demographic Responses to Fluctuations in the Standard of Living in England, 1540-1834 ; 3. Malthusian Mythologies and Chinese Realities: The Population History of One-Quarter of Humanity, 1700-2000 ; 4. Population Growth and Population Regulation in Nineteenth Century Rural Scotland ; 5. Infant Mortality, Child Neglect, and Child Abandonment in European History: A Comparative Analysis ; 6. Malthus and North America: Was the United States Subject to Economic-Demographic Crises? ; 7. Malthus Revisited: Exploring Medium-range Interactions between Economic and Demographic Forces in Historic Europe ; 8. Malthus in Latin America: Demographic Responses during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ; 9. Structural Factors Affecting the Short-term Positive Check in Croatia, Slavonia, and Srem in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ; 10. Determinants of Mortality Variability in Historical Populations and Its Behavioural and Aggregate Consequences ; 11. Inequality in Death: Effects of the Agrarian Revolution in Southern Sweden, 1765-1965 ; 12. Mortality and Economic Stress: Individual and Household Responses in a Nineteenth Century Belgian Village ; 13. Price Fluctuations, Family Structure, and Mortality in Two Rural Chinese Populations: Household Responses to Economic Stress in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Liaoning ; 14. Mortality Responses to Short-term Economic Stress and Household Context in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages ; 15. Infant Mortality in Nineteenth Century Italy: Interactions between Ecology and Society