Population and Economy From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction,Tommy Bengtsson and Osamu Saito
1. What Determined the Onset of Modern Progress in the Standard of Living,Julian Simon
2. Short-run and Secular Demographic Responses to Fluctuations in the Standard of Living in England, 1540-1834,Roger Schofiled
3. Malthusian Mythologies and Chinese Realities: The Population History of One-Quarter of Humanity, 1700-2000,James Z. Lee, Wang Feng, and Li Bozhong
4. Population Growth and Population Regulation in Nineteenth Century Rural Scotland,Michael Anderson
5. Infant Mortality, Child Neglect, and Child Abandonment in European History: A Comparative Analysis,Katherine A. Lynch
6. Malthus and North America: Was the United States Subject to Economic-Demographic Crises?,Michael R. Haines
7. Malthus Revisited: Exploring Medium-range Interactions between Economic and Demographic Forces in Historic Europe,David S. Reher and Jose Antonio Ortega Osona
8. Malthus in Latin America: Demographic Responses during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,Alberto Palloni, Hector Perez Brignoli, and Elizabeth Arias
9. Structural Factors Affecting the Short-term Positive Check in Croatia, Slavonia, and Srem in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,E. A. Hammel and Patrick Galloway
10. Determinants of Mortality Variability in Historical Populations and Its Behavioural and Aggregate Consequences,Jose Antonio Ortega Osona
11. Inequality in Death: Effects of the Agrarian Revolution in Southern Sweden, 1765-1965,Tommy Bengtsson
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