Economic Evolution and Demographic Change
Formal Models in Social Sciences
Published on 17. December 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 409 pages
978-3-540-56172-9 (ISBN)
Description
The articles collected in this volume have two features in
common: they wantto integrate economics, demography and
geography, and they want to overcome the stationary approach
in modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book is
subdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing on
economic evolution, Part II on geographical development and
Part III is related to demographic change. The present
volume aims at providing a new look at this triangle in view
of the classical background of discussions by introducing
new research ideas focussing in nonlinear dynamics and
stochastic modelling. Thus the main purpose of this book is
to make a contribution to the interdisciplinary work needed
to integrate the effortsbetween these three research fields
and to serve as a research source in demonstrating the
current state of art in dynamic modelling.
The book isaddressed to social scientists in general, and
those in particular with a background in economics,
geographics and demographics. It should also be of interest
to mathematicians, physicists, and systems analysts
interested in model building and applications of nonlinear
dynamics.
More details
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
128 s/w Abbildungen
XVI, 409 p. 128 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-56172-9 (9783540561729)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-48808-5
Schweitzer Classification
Content
I Formal Models in Economics.- 1 A chaotic process with slow feed back: The case of business cycles.- 2 Nonlinear Interactions in the Economy.- 3 Fast and Slow Processes of Economic Evolution.- 4 A stochastic model of technological evolution.- 5 Evolution of Production Processes.- 6 Innovation Diffusion through Schumpeterian Competition.- 7 Nonlinear Threshold Dynamics: Further Examples for Chaos in Social Sciences.- II Formal Models in Geography.- 8 Geography Physics and Synergetics.- 9 Chaotic Behaviour in Spatial Systems and Forecasting.- 10 Model Identification for Estimating Missing Values in Space-Time Data Series: Monthly Inflation in the US Urban System, 1977-1990.- 11 Explanation of Residential Segregation in one City. The Case of Cologne.- 12 Determinants of Remigrant Behavior: An Application of the Grouped Cox Model.- III Formal Models in Demography.- 13 Birth Control as a Social Dilemma.- 14 Sex-Ratio, divorce, and labor force participation - An analysis of international aggregate data.- 15 Some Aspects of Competing Risks in Demography.- 16 Dynamic Structural Equations in Discrete and Continuous Time.- 17 Recursive Probability Estimators for Count Data.- 18 A Mathematical Model for Behavioral Changes by Pair Interactions.- 19 Employment and Education as Non-Linear Network-Populations, Part I: Theory, Categorization and Methodology.- 20 Employment and Education as Non-Linear Network Populations Part II: Model Structures, Estimations, and Scenarios.