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- 008 070420s2006 enka b 000 0 eng d
- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)ocn150331614
- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)ocn 150331614
- 040 __ |a BTCTA |c BTCTA |d YDXCP |d BAKER |d EUF
- 050 _4 |a HC26 |b .E17 2006
- 100 1_ |a Easterlin, Richard A., |d 1926-
- 245 14 |a The reluctant economist : |b perspectives on economics, economic history and demography / |c Richard A. Easterlin.
- 260 __ |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2006.
- 300 __ |a xx, 285 p. : |b ill. ; |c 24 cm.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-278) and index.
- 505 0_ |a The reluctant economist -- Economics and the use of subjective testimony -- Is economic growth creating a new postmaterialistic society? -- Why isn't the whole world developed? -- Kuznets cycles and modern economic growth -- Industrial revolution and mortality revolution : two of a kind? -- How beneficent is the market? A look at the modern history of mortality -- An economic framework for fertility analysis -- New perspectives on the demographic transition -- Does human fertility adjust to the environment? Population change and farm settlement in the northern United States -- America's baby boom and bust, 1940-1980 : causes and consequences -- Preferences and prices in choice of career : the switch to business.
- 650 _0 |a Economic history.
- 651 _0 |a United States |x Economic conditions.