Demographic Change and Long-Run Development /

Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sunde, Uwe (Editor ), Cervellati, Matteo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Economic development.
Demographic transition.
economic development.
Developpement economique.
Transition demographique.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Series Foreword
  • Overview
  • Preface
  • 1 The Demographic Transition and Long-Term Development
  • 2 The Long Shadow of History: The Biogeographical Origins of Comparative Economic Development
  • 3 Health Improvement and Income Growth in the Long Run
  • 4 Did Longer Lives Buy Economic Growth? From Malthus to Lucas and Ben-Porath
  • 5 Adult Mortality and Modern Growth
  • 6 Human Physiological Development and Economic Growth
  • 7 Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility
  • 8 Land Inequality, Education, and Marriage: Empirical Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia9 Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics
  • 10 Time Since What? (Re)interpreting the Neolithic Transition in a Malthusian Environment
  • 11 Caste Systems and Technology in Premodern Societies
  • 12 Conclusion and Outlook
  • Contributors

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