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Informationen zum Autor Tommy Bengtsson, Professor in Economic History at Lund University and presently Professor in Demography at Odense University, has been working mainly on the complex relationship between population and economy, past and present.Osamu Saito, a Professor in the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, has been working in both economic history and historical demography. 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 How did people adjust imbalances between population and food? How did households respond to economic stress caused by the death of the father? In order to answer these questions this volume offers new evidence and develops new arguments by applying sophisticated methodologies to exploit new kinds of source material. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Julian Simon: What Determined the Onset of Modern Progress in the Standard of Living 2: Roger Schofield: Short-run and Secular Demographic Response to Fluctuations in the Standard of Living in England, 1540-1834 3: James Z. Lee and Wang Feng, with Li Bozhong: Population, Poverty, and Subsistence in China, 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, 1765-1865 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 ...
