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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The reluctant economist
- Economics and the use of subjective testimony
- Is economic growth creating a new postmaterialistic society?
- Why isn't the whole world developed?
- Kuznets cycles and modern economic growth
- Industrial revolution and mortality revolution : two of a kind?
- How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality
- An economic framework for fertility analysis
- New perspectives on the demographic transition
- Does human fertility adjust to the environment? Population change and farm settlement in the northern United States
- America's baby boom and bust, 1940-1980 : causes and consequences
- Preferences and prices in choice of career : the switch to business.