Economics and demography / Ian Bowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, Ian, 1908-1984.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population.

Population--Economic aspects.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Table of World Population Estimates, 1974Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781136447983

1136447989

9780203125021

0203125029

9781283844260

1283844265

9781136447990

1136447997

OCLC:

821173796