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The reluctant economist : perspectives on economics, economic history and demography /
Where is rapid economic growth taking us? Why has its spread throughout the world been so limited? What are the causes of the great twentieth century advance in life expectancy? Of the revolution in childbearing that is bringing fertility worldwide to near replacement levels? Have free markets been...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Where is rapid economic growth taking us? Why has its spread throughout the world been so limited? What are the causes of the great twentieth century advance in life expectancy? Of the revolution in childbearing that is bringing fertility worldwide to near replacement levels? Have free markets been the source of human improvement? Economics provides a start on these questions, but only a start, argues economist Richard A. Easterlin. To answer them calls for merging economics with concepts and data from other social sciences, and with quantitative and qualitative history. Easterlin demonstrates this approach in seeking answers to these and other questions about world or American experience in the last two centuries, drawing on economics, demography, sociology, history, and psychology. The opening chapter gives an autobiographical account of the evolution of this approach, and why Easterlin is a 'reluctant economist'. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511193815 9780511193811 0521829747 9780521829748 0511195885 9780511195884 0511195222 9780511195228 9780511616730 0511616732 1280477822 9781280477829 9786610477821 6610477825 1107147972 9781107147973 0511314248 9780511314247 0511194552 9780511194559 |