Population and Development in Poor Countries
Selected Essays
Will be published approx. on 19. April 2016
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-0-691-63743-3 (ISBN)
Description
Making the case that population growth does not hinder economic progress and that it eventually raises standards of living, Julian Simon became one of the most controversial figures in economics during the past decade. This book gathers a set of articles--theoretical, empirical, and policy analyses--written over the past twenty years, which examine the effects of population increase on various aspects of economic development in less-developed economies. The studies show that within a century, or even a quarter of a century, the positive benefits of additional people counterbalance the short-run costs. The process is as follows: increased numbers of consumers, and the resultant increase of total income, expand the demand for raw materials and finished products. The resulting actual and expected shortages force up prices of the natural resources. The increased prices trigger the search for new ways to satisfy the demand, and sooner or later new sources and innovative substitutes are found. These new discoveries lead to cheaper natural resources than existed before this process began, leaving humanity better off than if the shortages had not appeared. Originally published in 1992.
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Reviews / Votes
"Julian Simon has been the dominant world figure in population economics... The essays in this large and very welcome volume elaborate a consistent set of arguments about the positive long-term relationships between population and development that have been critical in shifting the balance of the discourse from the excessive neo-Malthusianism of the 1970s and earlier to the much more analytical perspectives that are now taken for granted."--Third World Planning ReviewMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
886 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-63743-3 (9780691637433)
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E-Book
07/2014
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€88.49
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Person
Julian Lincoln Simon
Content
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. xi*1 .The Effects of Population on Nutrition and Economic Well-Being, pg. 3*2. Demographic Causes and Consequences of the Industrial Revolution, pg. 24*3. An Integration of the Invention-Pull and Population- Push Theories of Economic-Demographic History, pg. 43*4. Some Theory of Population Growth's Effect on Technical Change in an Industrial Context, pg. 78*5. Population, Natural Resources, and the Long-Run Standard of Living, pg. 89*6. Robinson Crusoe Was Not Mainly a Resource Allocator, pg. 122*7. There Is No Low-Level Fertility-and-Development Trap, pg. 127*8. Population Growth May Be Good for LDCs in the Long Run: A Richer Simulation Model, pg. 143*9a. The Relationship between Population and Economic Growth in LDCs, pg. 180*9b. On Aggregate Empirical Studies Relating Population Variables with Economic Development, pg. 199*10. The Positive Effect of Population Growth on Agricultural Saving in Irrigation Systems, pg. 209*11. "Population Pressure" on the Land: Analysis of Trends Past and Future, pg. 223*12. The Effect of Population Density on Infrastructure: The Case of Road Building, pg. 242*13a. The Effect of Population Growth on the Quantity of Education Children Receive, pg. 259*13b. The Effect of Population Growth on the Quantity of Education Children Receive: A Reply, pg. 284*14. Does Population Growth Cause Unemployment, or Economic Development, or Both?, pg. 289*15. The Effects of Population Size, Growth, and Concentration on Scientific Productivity, pg. 317*16. Population Size, Knowledge Stock, and Other Determinants of Agricultural Publication and Patenting: England, 1541-1850, pg. 334*17. Population Growth, Economic Growth, and Foreign Aid, pg. 363*18. The Welfare Effect of an Additional Child Cannot Be Stated Simply and Unequivocally, pg. 389*19. On the Evaluation of Progress and Technological Advance, Past and Future, pg. 411*20. Lebensraum: An Essay on Peace in the Future; or, Population Growth May Eventually End Wars, pg. 423*Epilogue: Some History and Reflections on Population Economics, pg. 435*Index, pg. 455