Population and world politics:
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Weitere Verfasser: Hauser, Philip Morris 1909-1994 (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Glencoe, IL Free Press 1958
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Beschreibung:A selection of public lectures a papers presented at the 30th Institute of the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation held at the U of Chicago in Nov, 1954 in III Parts. An Introduction by the Ed suggests some of the problems posed by the world's present pop increase of over 1% per yr in contrast to the rate of 1.5% which characterized most of man's past. I - World Population and Resources - contains John Durand in 'World Population: Trend and Prospect', presenting data on the history of world pop growth, the 'demographic transition', &, UN pop projections to 1980. Frank W. Note stein, in 'Regional Population: Trends and Prospects', analyzes pop growth & trends for major areas of the world against the backdrop of pop projections he presented 10 yrs ago. The disparities, particularly large in the Americas & Africa, highlight the increase in the rate of world pop growth since WWII, & some problems in making projections are discussed. 'World Resources in Relation to Population', by W. S. Woytinsky, reviews the carrying capacity of the earth in relation to pop growth & to changing consumption patterns since 'the major factor is growth in per capita consumption rather than increase in pop,' & concludes that 'the race is not between pop growth & natural resources but between technology & politics, in the broad Aristotelian sense.' II - Population, Levels of Living Economic Development - presents 'Regional Economic Trends and Levels of Living' by Simon Kuznets, detailing data showing wide diff's in the regional distribution of per capita income & of various consumption items & relating these diff's to diff's in econ development. Among other findings are 'that the relative diff's in per capita income between the developed & underdeveloped countries have increased since the end of the 19th cent' & 'that in the underdeveloped countries internal inequality in income distribution has not been reduced over the last half cent & m
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