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Easterlin, Richard Ainley was born on January 12, 1926 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Daniel and Helen Maud (Booth) Easterlin.
( In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows ho...)
In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows how the size of a generation—the number of persons born in a particular year—directly and indirectly affects the personal welfare of its members, the make-up and breakdown of the family, and the general well being of the economy. "[Easterlin] has made clear, I think unambiguously, that the baby-boom generation is economically underprivileged merely because of its size. And in showing this, he demonstrates that population size can be as restrictive as a factor as sex, race, or class on equality of opportunity in the U.S."—Jeffrey Madrick, Business Week
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A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers the kinds of writing college students need to do. The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.
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A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers the kinds of writing college students need to do. The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.
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(Introduction By Dorothy Swaine Thomas. In Three Volumes. ...)
Introduction By Dorothy Swaine Thomas. In Three Volumes. Volume 1, Methodological Considerations And Reference Tables; Volume 2, Analyses Of Economic Change; Volume 3, Demographic Analyses And Interrelations.
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Additional Author Is Carol P. Brainerd. Edited By Simon Kuznets And Dorothy Swaine Thomas. In Three Volumes. Volume 1, Methodological Considerations And Reference Tables; Volume 2, Analyses Of Economic Change; Volume 3, Demographic Analyses And Interrelations.
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Since its publication, Richard Moe’s THE LAST FULL MEASURE has garnered a reputation as one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War and the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment. Moe’s chronicle of the First Minnesota has received wide acclaim from reviewers and historians alike. As James MacGregor Burns notes in his foreword to the book, "Like Tolstoy’s 'War and Peace,' this work sticks close to the men in battle, and hence, like Tolstoy, the author keeps close to the human size of war." Ken Burns, co-producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary "The Civil War" notes that "Richard Moe, in this wonderfully told regimental history, manages to rescue that which Civil War studies so often neglects: the people."
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( For most of human history a "natural fertility" regime ...)
For most of human history a "natural fertility" regime has prevailed throughout the world: there has been almost no conscious limitation of family size within marriage, and women have spent their reproductive lives tied to the "wheel of childbearing." Only recently in developed countries has fertility been brought under conscious control by individual couples and childbearing fallen to an average of two births per woman. The explanation of this "fertility revolution" is the main concern of this book. Richard A. Easterlin and Eileen M. Crimmins present and test a fertility theory that has gained increasing attention over the last decade, a "supply-demand theory" that integrates economic and sociological approaches to fertility determination. The results of the tests, which draw on data from four developing countries—Colombia, India, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan—are highly consistent, though a number of the conclusions are likely to arouse controversy. For example, couples' motivation for fertility control appears to be the prime mover in the fertility revolution, rather than access to family planning services or unfavorable attitudes toward such services. The interdisciplinary approach and nontechnical exposition of this study will attract a wide readership among economists, sociologists, demographers, anthropologists, statisticians, biologists, and others.
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Taking a longer view than most literature on economic development, Richard A. Easterlin stresses the enormous contrast between the collective experience of the last half century in both developed and developing countries and what has gone before. An economic historian and demographer, the author writes in the tradition of the "new economic history," drawing on economic theory and quantitative evidence to interpret the historical experience of economic theory and population growth. He reaches beyond the usual disciplinary limits to draw, as appropriate, on sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, and the history of science. The book will be of interest not only to social scientists but to all readers concerned with where we have been and where we are going. ". . . Easterlin is both an economic historian and a demographer, and it is the combination of these two disciplines and the fine balance between theory and experience that make this well-written, refreshingly optimistic book excellent reading." --Population and Development Review "In this masterful synthesis, Richard Easterlin draws on the disciplines of economic history, demography, sociology, political science, psychology, and the history of science to present an integrated explation of the origins of modern economic growth and of the mortality revolution. . . . His book should be easily accessible to non-specialists and will give them a sense of why economic history can inform our understanding of the future." --Dora L. Costa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EH.Net and H-Net "Growth Triumphant is, simply, a fascinating book. Easterlin has woven together a history of economic growth, economic development, human mortality and morbidity, the connections each has with the others, and the implications of this nexus of forces on the future. . . . This book deserves a wide audience." --Choice "In what must surely be the most fair-minded, well-balanced, and scrupulously reasoned and researched book on the sensational subjects implied in its title--the Industrial Revolution, the mortality and fertility revolutions, and the prospects for future happiness for the human race--Professor Easterlin has set in place the capstone of his research career." --Journal of Economic History Richard A. Easterlin is Professor of Economics, University of Southern California.
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Newly available in paperback, this study explores the dynamics of race and masculinity to provide fresh historical insight into the First World War and its Imperial dimensions, examining the experiences of Jamaicans who served in British regiments. Reluctance to accept West Indian volunteers was rooted in the belief that black men lacked the qualities necessary for modern warfare. This, combined with fears over white racial degeneration, resulted in the need to preserve established hierarchies, which was achieved through the exclusion of black soldiers from the front line and their confinement in labour battalions. However, the author shows that despite this exclusion, the experience of war was invaluable in allowing veterans to appropriate codes of heroism, sacrifice and citizenship in order to wage their own battles for independence on their return home, culminating in the nationalist upsurge of the late 1930s. This book offers a lively and accessible account that will prove invaluable to those studying the Imperial dimensions of the First World War, as well and those interested in the wider notions of race and masculinity in the British Empire.
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Easterlin, Richard Ainley was born on January 12, 1926 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Daniel and Helen Maud (Booth) Easterlin.
Mechanical Engineering with distinction, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1945. Master of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1953.
Instructor, Assistant Professor, Association Professor, Professor of Economics, William R. Kenan Junior Professor, University Pennsylvania, 1948-1953, 1953—
6. 1956-1960, 1960-1978, 1978-1982. Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 1960-1961, University Warwick, England, 1978.
Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States of America, California, United States of America, since 1982. Editorial Boards, American Economic Review,
1965-1970, Journal of Economic Literature, 1968-1970, Journal of Economic History, 1965-1970,
1974-1979, Explorations Economics History, since 1973, Demograph, 1965-1967, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization,
1982-. Advisory Board, Population and Development Review, since 1980.
( For most of human history a "natural fertility" regime ...)
(Newly available in paperback, this study explores the dyn...)
(Since its publication, Richard Moe’s THE LAST FULL MEASUR...)
( A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers t...)
( A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers t...)
( Taking a longer view than most literature on economic d...)
(Introduction By Dorothy Swaine Thomas. In Three Volumes. ...)
( In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows ho...)
(Additional Author Is Carol P. Brainerd. Edited By Simon K...)
Author: The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective, 1962, Population, Labor Force and Long Swings in Economic Growth. The American Experience, 1968, Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare, 1980, second edition, 1987. Co-author: Population Redistribution and Economic Growth, United States, 1870-1950, volunteer 1, 1957, volunteer 11, 1960, American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States, 1972, The Fertility Revolution: A Supply-Demand Analysis, 1985, Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-First Century in Historical Perspective, 1996.
My basic research motivation has been better understanding of various real world conditions: the limited spread of modem economic growth. The meaning of economic welfare and its relation to economic growth. The transition from high to low fertility that has invariably accompanied modernisation.
‘long swings’ of 15 to 25 years in population and economic growth in the United States and other developed countries. The post World War II American baby boom and bust and associated swings in economic and social conditions relating to women’s work, divorce, suicide, crime, etc. Progress on these problems has often involved empirical work to establish more clearly the facts to be explained — from estimation of regional incomes and reconstruction of trends in childbearing behaviour in the United States to an
attempt to chart the rise of school enrolments in countries throughout the world.
It has required the use of economic theory to organise data and formulate hypotheses, and led to new theorising on topics such as childbearing behaviour. It has called for learning new techniques that fall outside the purview of economics, such as demographic methodology.
Finally, the resistance of reality to purely economic interpretation has increasingly led me to recognise the relevance of important theoretical concepts in other social sciences, such as ‘relative deprivation’ and ‘natural’ (i.e. unregulated) fertility, and to try to reconcile such concepts with received economic doctrine. I would like to feel that my work has provided some insight into both the long-term trend and post-World War II swing in American fertility.
The factors responsible for the demographic transition in today’s developing countries. The importance of education in the spread of economic development. The interrelations between social conditions and economic change.
And the relativity of economic welfare. Perhaps also it may have contributed to a better economic theory of human fertility, and to the promotion of relative income-type concepts in economic analysis.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society. Member American Economic Association, Population Association American (director 1965, 69-72, Second vice president 1973-1974, president 1978), Economic History Association (vice president 1971-1972, president 1979-1980), International Union for Science Study Population.
Married Jacqueline Mandaville Miller, September 11, 1949 (divorced 1980). Children– John Daniel, Nancy Lincoln, Susan Provost, Andrew M. Married Eileen Mary Crimmins, 1980.
Children– Matthew Crimmins, Molly Crimmins.