Population and Economy

From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829653-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 509 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 928 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bengtsson, Tommy

Saito, Osamu

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftsstatistik, Demographie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Julian Simon: What Determined the Onset of Modern Progress in the Standard of Living

- 2: Roger Schofiled: Short-run and Secular Demographic Responses to Fluctuations in the Standard of Living in England, 1540-1834

- 3: James Z. Lee, Wang Feng, and Li Bozhong: Malthusian Mythologies and Chinese Realities: The Population History of One-Quarter of Humanity, 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, 1765-1965

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.