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Fewer, Richer, Greener : the Age of Prosperity and the End of the Population Explosion.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siegel, Laurence B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro; Fewer, Richer, Greener; Contents; Foreword; On Capitalism and Humane True Liberalism; Apocalypse Now ... or Apocalypse Not?; Free Markets and Free Minds; A Big and Rich Africa?; Conscious Capitalism; Perils and Promise of the Future; Population and the Environment; Rational Optimism; Preface; How I Came to Write This Book; Acknowledgments; Part I The Great Betterment; 1 Right Here, Right Now; The Charming Little House; A Tale of Three Authors; Matt Ridley: How Prosperity Evolves; Hans Rosling: Poor and Sick to Rich and Healthy; The World in 1800: Mostly Poor and Sick 
505 8 |a The World in 1948: Maximum Inequality, the End of the Great DivergenceThe World in 2018: The Great Convergence Finally Takes Hold; Conclusion; Part II Fewer; 2 The Population Explosion, Malthus, and the Ghost of Christmas Present; What Happened to the Population Hockey Stick?; Falling Birth Rates: Boon or Disaster?; "The Paragon of Animals"; Malthus's Dismal Theory; Malthus's Mistake; From Malthus to Modernism; The Modern Voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present; Conclusion; 3 The Demographic Transition: Running Out of and Into People; The Demographic Transition and Population Momentum 
505 8 |a Stage 1: Shoemaker and Morning StarStage 2: The Population Explosion Begins; Stage 3: Toward a New Equilibrium; Stage 4: Population Stability at a High Level; Stage 5: The Fertility of the Very Rich; An Aging and Stabilizing World; The High-fertility World: A Shrinking Geography, a Growing Population; Sub-Saharan Africa: The Last Fertility Frontier; 4 Having Fewer Children: "People Respond to Incentives"; The Low-Fertility World: No Longer the Exception, but the Rule; Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold-Just Right; Newcomers to the Low-fertility World; East Asia, Epicenter of Childlessness 
505 8 |a The United States: Baby Boom, Baby BustWhy People Have Children: The Beginnings of Demography; Gary Becker: The Economics of People; Children as Consumer Goods?; Responding to Incentives in Mid-century America; Planning a Future; Living for the Moment; Responding to Incentives in a Population-stabilizing World; Conclusion; 5 Age Before Beauty: Life in an Aging Society; The Upside of Aging; ... And the Downsides; Ben Wattenberg's Vision of an Aging World; Aging Gracefully; What's the Matter with Kids These Days?; Loneliness and the Folk Society; The Pension Dilemma 
505 8 |a Defined Benefit versus Defined Contribution Pension PlansA Riskless "Pension Promise to Oneself"; Taking Equity Market Risk to Improve Retirement Income Expectations; Medical Costs; Greater Effectiveness; Third-party Payment; The Problem with Medical "Insurance"; A Modest Proposal; Bureaucracy and Mission Creep; Working Longer; Conclusion; Part III Richer; 6 Before the Great Enrichment: The Year 1 to 1750; The Economic Hockey Stick; Why Were Premodern People Short?; The First Divergence; In an Age with Many Paupers, a Surfeit of Geniuses; Neo-Malthusians and Proto-cornucopians 
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