Tommy Bengtsson / Osamu Saito (eds.)

Population and Economy

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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 an 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 509
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780198296539
• ISBN-10: 0198296533
• Artikelnr.: 21069759

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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