Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.

Product Description: Surveying the impact of population growth where it is believed to matter most--the rural areas of developing countries--this volume explicates its effects on food production. It examines such factors as forecasts of global food output, technological progress in agriculture, choice of agricultural systems, and population growth and access to land...read more

Product Description: The past century has seen dramatic changes in the demographic situation in developed countries. Declining fertility, increasing life expectancy, and widely-varying birth rates have all worked to create dents and bulges in the population age distribution with many social and economic strains...read more