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Zusatztext With a brief introduction, this collection of scholarly essays offers both demographers and economic historians a wealth of new findings and insights. Informationen zum Autor Tommy Bengtsson is Associate Professor of Economic History at Lund University. He is currently also Guest Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology.Osamu Saito is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University. Klappentext This book of collected essays--an outcome of an A-session held at the 12th International Congress of Economic History in Madrid, 1998--sets a new standard in an active and influential field of research. The contributors go beyond the conventional European and North American geographical boundaries, bringing out new empirical findings and developing new arguments. Zusammenfassung Malthus's "Essay on the Principle of Population" has informed debate on relationships between population and economy for the last two centuries. These essays go beyond the usual European and North American boundaries, bringing out new empirical findings and developing new arguments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Julian Simon: What Determined the Onset of Modern Progress in the Standard of Living 2: Roger Schofiled: Short-run and Secular Demographic Responses to Fluctuations in the Standard of Living in England, 1540-1834 3: James Z. Lee, Wang Feng, and Li Bozhong: Malthusian Mythologies and Chinese Realities: The Population History of One-Quarter of Humanity, 1700-2000 4: Michael Anderson: Population Growth and Population Regulation in Nineteenth Century Rural Scotland 5: Katherine A. Lynch: Infant Mortality, Child Neglect, and Child Abandonment in European History: A Comparative Analysis 6: Michael R. Haines: Malthus and North America: Was the United States Subject to Economic-Demographic Crises? 7: David S. Reher and Jose Antonio Ortega Osona: Malthus Revisited: Exploring Medium-range Interactions between Economic and Demographic Forces in Historic Europe 8: Alberto Palloni, Hector Perez Brignoli, and Elizabeth Arias: Malthus in Latin America: Demographic Responses during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 9: E. A. Hammel and Patrick Galloway: Structural Factors Affecting the Short-term Positive Check in Croatia, Slavonia, and Srem in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 10: Jose Antonio Ortega Osona: Determinants of Mortality Variability in Historical Populations and Its Behavioural and Aggregate Consequences 11: Tommy Bengtsson: Inequality in Death: Effects of the Agrarian Revolution in Southern Sweden, 1765-1965 12: George Alter and Michael Oris: Mortality and Economic Stress: Individual and Household Responses in a Nineteenth Century Belgian Village 13: Cameron D. Campbell and James Z. Lee: Price Fluctuations, Family Structure, and Mortality in Two Rural Chinese Populations: Household Responses to Economic Stress in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Liaoning 14: Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu: Mortality Responses to Short-term Economic Stress and Household Context in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages 15: Marco Breschi, Renzo Derosas, and Matteo Manfredini: Infant Mortality in Nineteenth Century Italy: Interactions between Ecology and Society ...
