UID:
almafu_9960119414902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 463 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-87300-X
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0-511-52305-X
Serie:
Studies in economic history and policy
Inhalt:
This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern economic growth'. Chapters five to seven introduce the main theme of the remainder of the volume: interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. Chapters eight to ten draw on a wider set of data to make comparisons of income inequality among societies at widely different levels of development. Chapter eleven returns to data for the United States to develop more fully the importance of differing childbearing patterns for income inequality. In the introduction Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. In the afterword Professor Robert Fogel discusses the methodologies favoured by Kuznets.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Untitled -- Contents -- Preface by Louis Galambos and Robert Gallman -- Foreword by Richard A. Easterlin -- 1 Driving forces of economic growth: what can we learn from history? -- I. Introduction -- II. Technological innovations and capital formation -- III. Structural shifts -- IV. National and international aspects -- V. Concluding comments -- A bibliographical note -- 2 A note on production structure and aggregate growth -- I. Introduction -- II. Statistical findings -- III. Concluding comments -- 3 The pattern of shift of labor force from agriculture, 1950-70 -- I. Introduction -- II. Pattern of the decline in the share of male labor force in agriculture, in relation to the initial share -- III. Findings and implications -- IV. Concluding comments -- References -- 4 Modern economic growth and the less developed countries -- I. Distinctive characteristics of modern economic growth -- II. Implications for LDCs -- III. Concluding comments -- 5 Notes on demographic change -- 6 Recent population trends in less developed countries and implications for internal income inequality -- I. The major population trends -- II. Some implications -- References -- 7 Demographic aspects of the size distribution of income: an exploratory essay -- I. Introduction -- II. The recipient unit -- III. Differences in size of family or household -- IV. Size of family and the life cycle -- V. Family or unit size and income differentials by age of head -- VI. Cross-section differentials by age of headand lifetime income -- VII. Concluding comments -- 8 Size and age structure of family households: exploratory comparisons -- I. Allocation of differences in size of average household: an illustration -- II. Allocation of differences in average size of household: international, rural-urban, and over-time comparison.
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III. Small and large households, by age and sex of head: an illustrative comparison -- IV. Concluding comments -- 9 Size of households and income disparities -- I. The association illustrated -- II. Some variants -- III. Factors relevant to the association -- IV. Concluding comments -- 10 Distributions of households by size: differences and trends -- I. International comparison for recent years -- II. Allocation of total inequality in the size distribution of households -- III. Implications and conjectures -- IV. Trends over time -- V. Summary -- 11 Children and adults in the income distribution -- I. Introduction -- II. Distribution of families by number of persons and by number of children -- III. Inclusion of unrelated individuals -- IV. The life-cycle aspects -- V. Model type families: analytical illustrations -- VI. Concluding comments -- Afterword: Some notes on the scientific methods of Simon Kuznets by Robert William Fogel -- I. Four aspects of Kuznets's approach to economics -- II. How to measure in economics -- III. Kuznets as a theorist -- IV. A brief talk by Kuznets -- References -- Bibliography of Simon Kuznets -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-52196-3
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-34384-4
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523052
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