Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems
Autor Nicholas Eberstadten Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 2000
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781560004233
ISBN-10: 1560004231
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1560004231
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction
Part I: Population Problems in the United States
1. Prosperous Paupers and Affluent Savages:
The New Challenges to Social Policy in America 13
2. Why Babies Die in D.C. 33
3. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Epidemiologist 51
Part II: Population Problems Under Communism
4. Mortality and the Fate of Communist States 77
5. The Soviet Way of Death 107
6. Health and Mortality in Eastern Europe:
Retrospect and Prospect 119
7. Demographic Shocks in Eastern Germany, 1989-1993 153
Part III: Global Population Problems
8. Justifying Population Control: The Latest Arguments 175
9. Starved for Ideas: Misconceptions that Hinder
the Battle Against World Hunger 187
10. Population Prospects for Eastern Asia to 2015:
Trends and Implications 201
11. What If It’s a World Population Implosion?
Speculations about Global De-Population 239
Index
Part I: Population Problems in the United States
1. Prosperous Paupers and Affluent Savages:
The New Challenges to Social Policy in America 13
2. Why Babies Die in D.C. 33
3. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Epidemiologist 51
Part II: Population Problems Under Communism
4. Mortality and the Fate of Communist States 77
5. The Soviet Way of Death 107
6. Health and Mortality in Eastern Europe:
Retrospect and Prospect 119
7. Demographic Shocks in Eastern Germany, 1989-1993 153
Part III: Global Population Problems
8. Justifying Population Control: The Latest Arguments 175
9. Starved for Ideas: Misconceptions that Hinder
the Battle Against World Hunger 187
10. Population Prospects for Eastern Asia to 2015:
Trends and Implications 201
11. What If It’s a World Population Implosion?
Speculations about Global De-Population 239
Index
Notă biografică
Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a senior adviser to the National Board of Asian Research, a member of the visiting committee at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a member of the Global Leadership Council at the World Economic Forum. His previous works on Korean affairs include The Population of North Korea(co-author), Korea Approaches Reunification, A New International Engagement Framework for North Korea?, Korea's Future and the Great Powers (co-editor), and The End of North Korea.
Descriere
In current intellectual and public discourse, the entire modern world-from the affluent United States to the poorest low-income regions-is beset today by a broad and alarming array of "population problems."