170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation.
Professor Bowen, with many years’ experience of research into the economic and statistical aspects of population and world development, provides a survey of the population of... Read more
Part 1: The Demographic Outlook The Current Scene 1. Dilemmas and Objectives 2. Population Determinants: Mortality 3. Population Determinants: Fertility 4. Population Determinants: Migration Part 2: The Economic Factors 5. Adam Smith’s Growth and Population Theory 6. Malthus on the Poor Laws, and Modern Malthusians 7. Growth Economics and Population 8. Population and the Environment 9. A Summing Up Maps World Fertility Pattern, 1972 World Mortality Pattern, 1972 World Population Growth Pattern, 1972 Table of World Population Estimates, 1974
Biography
Ian Bowen
