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The reluctant economist : = perspectives on economics, economic history and demography /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The reluctant economist :/ Richard A. Easterlin.
Reminder of title:	perspectives on economics, economic history and demography /
Author:	Easterlin, Richard A.,
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Economic history. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616730
ISBN:	9780511616730 (ebook)

The reluctant economist : = perspectives on economics, economic history and demography /
Easterlin, Richard A.,1926-

The reluctant economist :perspectives on economics, economic history and demography /Richard A. Easterlin. - 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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'.

ISBN: 9780511616730 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

557541
Economic history.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: HC26 / .E17 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 330

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