The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay by Charbit, Yves

The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789048192977)

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The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay by Charbit, Yves

The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay

$109.99
The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay by Charbit, Yves

The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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1: Interpreting Ideas on Population.- 2: History and Utopia.- The Platonic City.- The Demography of the City.- Religion and Politics.- Space and Order.- Moderation and Excess.- A Totalitarian System?.- 3: There are no Riches other than Men.- Jean Bodin on Sovereignty.- Demographic Interpretations of Jean Bodin.- The Theory of Absolute Sovereignty and Population.- Bodin on Aristotle and Plato.- 4: The Prince and his Population.- From Montchrétien to Colbert and Fénelon.- Merchantilism and Populationism.- About Population.- A National Economic Policy.- International Trade and the Colonies.- The Decline of Merchantilism: Political and Economic Factors.- For Want of Political Arithmetic.- 5: The Political Failure of an Economic Theory.- Quesnay and the Physiocracy.- Agriculture and Prosperity.- On population.- A failure and its Causes.- 6: Towards Demography.- The Prince, The Father, The Landlord.- The Conflict of Interests.- The Emergence of Individualism.- From Homo Eoconomicus to Homo Demographicus.- Bibliography.- Index

Author: Yves Charbit
ISBN-10: 9048192978
ISBN-13: 9789048192977
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2010
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Yves Charbit
By Yves Charbit
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Born 1945. Professor of demography (classe exceptionnelle) Université Paris Descartes Training: MA Sociology and MA Economics ( Sorbonne), Diploma Sciences Po (Paris) D.Phil. Oxford, Doctorat es-Lettres (Paris). Chair of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Member of the Strategic comittee at the University level. Director of the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED, Université Paris Descartes, l'INED et l'IRD). 44 full-time teaching and research staff Published 17 books, 62 peer reviewed articles, etc. on international migrations, population theories and doctrines, family and fertility) Founding member of the the Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. Chief editor of the series Populations (L'Harmattan). Chief editor of Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Change (Springer) Worked as a consultant for UNFPA UNDP, UNICEF, USAID, World Bank, Coopération française, UNESCO. Field experience in several African, Carribean and South-East Asian countries.

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