The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography

ISBN: 9780521685115 出版年：2004 页码：307 Easterlin Cambridge University Press

List of tables and figures Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Economics: 1. The reluctant economist 2. Economics and the use of subjective testimony 3. Is economic growth creating a new postmaterialistic society? Part II. Economic History: 4. Why isn't the whole world developed? 5. Kuznets cycles and modern economic growth 6. Industrial revolution and mortality revolution: two of a kind? 7. How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality Part III. Demography: 8. An economic framework for fertility analysis 9. New perspectives on the demographic transition 10. Does human fertility adjust to the environment? Population change and farm settlement in the northern United States 11. America's baby boom and bust, 1940-80: causes and consequences 12. Preferences and prices in choice of career: the switch to business Epilogue Bibliography Index.