The Children of Eve: Population and Well-Being in History

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3689-4
Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cain, Louis P.

Paterson, Donald G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Demographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Initial Conditions1. Overview2. The Historical SettingPart II: Growth and Dispersal of the Human Population3. Morality: The Fourth Horsemen4. The Fertility Transition5. Long Distance Migration6. Regional MigrationPart III: Choices and Their Consequences7. The Changing Family8. Health and Well-Being9. Macroeconomic Effects of the Industrial Transition10. CatastrophesPart IV: Conclusions11. ConclusionsGeneral and Frequently Referenced Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Paterson, Donald G.
Louis P. Cain is Professor of Economics at Loyola University Chicago, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, Senior Investigator at the Center for Population Economics, University of Chicago, and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern. With the late Jonathan Hughes, he is the author of American Economic History, now in ist 8th edition (2011). His research includes projects on urban mortality, urban sanitation, industrial development, and the economic history of Chicago. He has served as a trustee of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference, and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society.

Cain, Louis P.
Donald G. Paterson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He received his D.Phil from the University of Sussex and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He is the author (with William L Marr) of Canada: An Economic History (1980) and has published widely in the areas of history of international investment, economic history of natural resource use, history of US technical change, macro-economic history of Canada, and business history.

Louis P. Cain is Professor of Economics at Loyola University Chicago, Adjunct Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, Senior Investigator at the Center for Population Economics, University of Chicago, and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern. With the late Jonathan Hughes, he is the author of American Economic History, now in its 8th edition (2011). His research includes projects on urban mortality, urban sanitation, industrial development, and the economic history of Chicago. He has served as a trustee of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference, and as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cliometric Society.Donald G. Paterson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He received his D.Phil from the University of Sussex and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He is the author (with William L Marr) of Canada: An Economic History (1980) and has published widely in the areas of history of international investment, economic history of natural resource use, history of US technical change, macro-economic history of Canada, and business history.Cain and Paterson previously co-authored two articles on biased technological change in The Journal of Economic History.