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Population Theories and their Economic Interpretation
Author(s): Sydney H. Coontz (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 Jan. 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415175313
- ISBN-13: 9780415175319
Book Description
First published in 1998. The work is divided into two parts provides the reader with the various hypotheses used to explain population dynamics: Part I contains a review and appraisal of population theories since Malthus. Part II presents a theoretical framework for the economic analysis of demography. The book contends that it is possible to develop a general theory of population dynamics which explains both long- and shortrun demographic phenomena.
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Sydney H. Coontz State University College of Forestry, Syracuse University
