ISBN:
9780190223922
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version On the cusp
DDC:
304.6/2
Keywords:
Population Economic aspects
;
Population
;
Population -- Economic aspects
;
Population
;
Population ; Economic aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"A comprehensive analysis of world population trends"--
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Précis""; ""The Bones of the Book""; ""A Roadmap""; ""2 The Long and Baleful Shadow of Thomas Robert Malthus""; ""Malthus's Big Idea""; ""Reactions and Influence""; ""Malthus Eclipsed""; ""An Aborted Revival""; ""3. Malthus Redux""; ""Malthus and Development (Malthus Transposed to the South)""; ""Malthus as a Prophet of Limits to Growth""; ""The Environmental Era""; ""Does Malthus Still Speak to Us?""; ""4. Population and Economic Growth""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Working Backwards: From the Classical Model to Adam Smith""""Mid-Twentieth-Century Modeling""; ""Second Thoughts in Subsequent Decades""; ""Growth and Population: Back to the Main Stream""; ""New Growth Theory""; ""Summing Up: Traps and Escape Mechanisms""; ""5. Optimal Population: An Attractive Chimera?""; ""Early Views""; ""Population Ethics and the Repugnant Conclusion""; ""Resources, Carrying Capacity, and Sustainability""; ""Reproductive Externalities""; ""Conclusions: Three Strikes and Three Misses""; ""6. Demographic Transitions""; ""A Quick Sketch""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Quirks of Measurement and New Issues""""Theories of the Demographic Transition""; ""Economic Implications: A Demographic Bonus and Subsequent Burden""; ""Looking Ahead: How Will It End?""; ""7. The Upside of Downsizing""; ""Population, Affluence, and Global Warming""; ""Population and Climate: Policy Matters""; ""Food Prospects""; ""Conclusions""; ""8. Downsizing: The Pessimist's Case""; ""Mining the Past""; ""A Framework for Data and Analysis""; ""Linking Aging and Productivity""; ""Does Size Matter?""; ""9. Aging: Retirement, Health, and the Generational Bargain""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Intergenerational Transfers: A Visual Metaphor""""The Generational Bargain""; ""Fragility and Fairness""; ""Quantifying "Fairness" by Birth Cohort""; ""Financing Aging: Retirement""; ""Health and Long-Term Care""; ""More Downsides?""; ""10. Coping Strategies""; ""Preliminaries""; ""A Troubling Complication""; ""Examining the Toolbox""; ""Can Less Be More? The De-growth Alternative""; ""11. Concluding Thoughts""; ""In Retrospect""; ""In Prospect""; ""References""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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