The Reluctant Economist

Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

Av Richard A. Easterlin, Richard A. (University of Southern California) Easterlin

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Where is rapid economic growth taking us? Why has its spread throughout the world been so limited? What are the causes of the great twentieth century advance in life expectancy? Of the revolution in childbearing that is bringing fertility worldwide to near replacement levels? Have free markets been the source of human improvement? Economics provides a start on these questions, but only a start, argues economist Richard A. Easterlin. To answer them calls for merging economics with concepts and data from other social sciences, and with quantitative and qualitative history. Easterlin demonstrates this approach in seeking answers to these and other questions about world or American experience in the last two centuries, drawing on economics, demography, sociology, history, and psychology. The opening chapter gives an autobiographical account of the evolution of this approach, and why Easterlin is a 'reluctant economist'.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-02-13
Mått152 x 230 x 16 mm
Vikt412 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor308
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521685115

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Richard A. Easterlin is University Professor and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Southern California. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, past president of the Population Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He is editor of Happiness in Economics (2002) and author or co-author of Growth Triumphant: The 21st Century in Historical Perspective (1996), The Fertility Revolution (1985), Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare (1980; 2nd edition 1987), and Population, Labor Force, and Long Swings in Economic Growth: The American Experience (1968).

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.

'Reluctant? Richard Easterlin brings to his work such a striking combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, ambition, precision, and skepticism that we might better call him the Thoughtful Economist. Here we witness him applying his unique synthesis of demography, social psychology, and economic analysis to a vast but well disciplined array of evidence concerning multiple times, places, and social phenomena.' Charles Tilly, Columbia University