| Description |
1 online resource (171 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Economics and Demography; Copyright; Contents; Part IThe Demographic Outlook; IntroductionThe Current Scene; 1 Dilemmas and Objectives; 2 Population Determinants: Mortality; 3 Population Determinants: Fertility; 4 Population Determinants: Migration; Part IIThe Economic Factors; 5 Adam Smith's Growth and Population Theory; 6 Malthus on the Poor Laws, and Modern Malthusians; 7 Growth Economics and Population; 8 Population and the Environment; 9 A Summing Up; Maps; World Fertility Pattern, 1972; World Mortality Pattern, 1972; World Population Growth Pattern, 1972 |
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Table of World Population Estimates, 1974Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1976, Economics and Demography discusses how the world population doubled in the thirty years prior to its publication, and considers the economic implications of this demographic transformation. Professor Bowen, with many years' experience of research into the economic and statistical aspects of population and world development, provides a survey of the population of the world, and of how political economists have explained population growth. The author's survey looks first at the mechanisms of growth - fertility, mortality, and migration - followed by an account of theorie |
| Subject |
Population.
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Population -- Economic aspects.
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Economic development.
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economic development.
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Economic development
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Population
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Population -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136447990 |
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1136447997 |
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