Simon Population and Development in Poor Countries

Selected Essays
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6217-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1204, 484 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Simon, Julian Lincoln

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Introduction, pg. xi
1.The Effects of Population on Nutrition and Economic Well-Being, pg. 3
2. Demographic Causes and Consequences of the Industrial Revolution, pg. 24
3. An Integration of the Invention-Pull and Population- Push Theories of Economic-Demographic History, pg. 43
4. Some Theory of Population Growth's Effect on Technical Change in an Industrial Context, pg. 78
5. Population, Natural Resources, and the Long-Run Standard of Living, pg. 89
6. Robinson Crusoe Was Not Mainly a Resource Allocator, pg. 122
7. There Is No Low-Level Fertility-and-Development Trap, pg. 127
8. Population Growth May Be Good for LDCs in the Long Run: A Richer Simulation Model, pg. 143
9a. The Relationship between Population and Economic Growth in LDCs, pg. 180
9b. On Aggregate Empirical Studies Relating Population Variables with Economic Development, pg. 199
10. The Positive Effect of Population Growth on Agricultural Saving in Irrigation Systems, pg. 209
11. "Population Pressure" on the Land: Analysis of Trends Past and Future, pg. 223
12. The Effect of Population Density on Infrastructure: The Case of Road Building, pg. 242
13a. The Effect of Population Growth on the Quantity of Education Children Receive, pg. 259
13b. The Effect of Population Growth on the Quantity of Education Children Receive: A Reply, pg. 284
14. Does Population Growth Cause Unemployment, or Economic Development, or Both?, pg. 289
15. The Effects of Population Size, Growth, and Concentration on Scientific Productivity, pg. 317
16. Population Size, Knowledge Stock, and Other Determinants of Agricultural Publication and Patenting: England, 1541-1850, pg. 334
17. Population Growth, Economic Growth, and Foreign Aid, pg. 363
18. The Welfare Effect of an Additional Child Cannot Be Stated Simply and Unequivocally, pg. 389
19. On the Evaluation of Progress and Technological Advance, Past and Future, pg. 411
20. Lebensraum: An Essay on Peace in the Future; or, Population Growth May Eventually End Wars, pg. 423
Epilogue: Some History and Reflections on Population Economics, pg. 435
Index, pg. 455