T. Bengtsson / O. Saito (eds.)

Population and Economy

From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth
Herausgeber: Bengtsson, I.; Bengtsson, T.; Saito, O.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 a historical perspective. This book 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 part 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, which is 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780199261840
• ISBN-10: 0199261849
• Artikelnr.: 21576884

Autorenporträt

Tommy Bengtsson, Professor in Economic History at Lund University and presently Professor in Demography at Odense University, has been working mainly on the complex relationship between population and economy, past and present. Osamu Saito, a Professor in the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, has been working in both economic history and historical demography.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Julian Simon: What Determined the Onset of Modern Progress in the
Standard of Living
* 2: Roger Schofield: Short-run and Secular Demographic Response to
Fluctuations in the Standard of Living in England, 1540-1834
* 3: James Z. Lee and Wang Feng, with Li Bozhong: Population, Poverty,
and Subsistence in China, 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, 1765-1865
* 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