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Growth Triumphant : The Twenty-First Century in Historical Perspective.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Economics, Cognition, and Society SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023554
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Growth TriumphantDDC classification:
  • 338.9
LOC classification:
  • HD75
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. Historical Overview -- I. Modern Economic Growth -- 2. Revolution or Evolution? The Epoch of Modern Economic Growth -- 3. The International Impact of Modern Economic Growth -- 4. Modern Economic Growth and the National Economy -- 5. Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Institutions and the Spread of Economic Growth -- II. Population Growth -- 6. The Nature and Causes of the Mortality Revolution -- 7. Malthus Revisited: The Economic Impact of Rapid Population Growth -- 8. The Fertility Transition: Its Nature and Causes -- 9. Secular Stagnation Resurrected: Population and the Economy in Developed Countries -- III. Implications for the Future -- 10. Does Satisfying Material Needs Increase Human Happiness? -- 11. The Next Century in Historical Perspective -- Appendix A: Major Economic Inventions -- Appendix B: Health Technology -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like.
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Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. Historical Overview -- I. Modern Economic Growth -- 2. Revolution or Evolution? The Epoch of Modern Economic Growth -- 3. The International Impact of Modern Economic Growth -- 4. Modern Economic Growth and the National Economy -- 5. Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Institutions and the Spread of Economic Growth -- II. Population Growth -- 6. The Nature and Causes of the Mortality Revolution -- 7. Malthus Revisited: The Economic Impact of Rapid Population Growth -- 8. The Fertility Transition: Its Nature and Causes -- 9. Secular Stagnation Resurrected: Population and the Economy in Developed Countries -- III. Implications for the Future -- 10. Does Satisfying Material Needs Increase Human Happiness? -- 11. The Next Century in Historical Perspective -- Appendix A: Major Economic Inventions -- Appendix B: Health Technology -- Notes -- References -- Index.

An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like.

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