Daniel R Vining
Biographic Data
| ID | 309879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel R Vining |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel R |
| FAMILY NAME | Vining |
| SIGNATURE | VINING D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University City Science Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sociobiology's relevance to modern society: Commentary on two articles published here
Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations
Population Concentration in Less Developed Countries: New Evidence
Measuring natural resource scarcity
Research Policy and Review 26: Where Does the United States Stand in the Global Resource Scarcity Debate
US policy on world resources and population underwent a drastic shift between the 1970s and 1980s. Underlying this shift were deep and persistent divisions among social scientists and policy scientists who are students of the global resource scarcity hypothesis. This article consists of a brief review of the history of the debate between those who believe that resources are becoming increasingly scarce and those who do not. Major focuses include …
Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History
Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history, thus ended Darwin's Origin of Species. For many years, the book provoked a flood of argument, but yielded little evidence. In the first century after the book's publication, virtually no one tested Darwin's theory against the evidence of human history. Now that tide has changed.. Laura Betzig challenges the proposition that the evolved end of human life is its reproduction by present…
Regional Dynamics: Studies in Adjustment Theory
Preface Part 1: A Theory of Regional Adjustment 1. The Adjustment Problem 2. Contemporary Regional Economic Structure 3. An Adjustment Model of Regional Production Part 2: Local Employment Profiles and Labour Demand 4. Fluctuations and Rigidities in Local Labour Markets 5. Regional Demand for Labour 6. The Risks of Local Adjustment Part 3: Regional Wages and Prices 7. Does Inflations Vary Between Cities? 8. Components of Local Inflation 9. Region…
Social versus reproductive success: The central theoretical problem of human sociobiology
The fundamental postulate of sociobiology is that individuals exploit favorable environments to increase their genetic representation in the next generation. The data on fertility differentials among contemporary humans are not cotvietent with this postulate. Given the importance of Homo sapiens as an animal species in the natural world today, these data constitute particularly challenging and interesting problem for both human sociobiology and s…
Industrial decentralization in Brazil: A query
The Growth of Core Urban Regions in Developing Countries
The highly disproportionate concentration of population and economic activity in the core urban regions of developing countries poses a serious demographic problem for Third World governments. This paper presents estimates of the rate of population redistribution to the metropolitan regions of 44 countries over the period 1950-80. The principal finding is that the core areas of most developing countries are still experiencing quite high--in some …
The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective
The Yule-Simon Model in its Limiting Case as a Pure Migration Process
In this paper the author offers an analytical solution to a problem first raised in 1973, namely, what is the equilibrium distribution of city sizes implied by the Yule-Simon model, when the total population of the urban system in question is stationary? Under the assumption that in-migration and out-migration rates are uncorrelated with city sizes, it is shown that Fisher's log-series distribution is that distribution. Fisher's log-series distri…
Family Salaries and the East German Birth Rate: A Comment
Richard Tomlinson, in a recent article on the French population debate in The Public Interest, America's leading neoconservative journal, states that When in 1977 the East German government introduced a 'family salary' of the kind advocated by [former French Prime Minister Michel] Debre, it had no perceptible impact on the birth rate . . . (pp. 118-119).' But, something had a perceptible impact on the East German birth rate around this time. From…
Quality Considerations in Population Policy
Illegitimacy and Public Policy
The possibility of a link between and illegitimacy is one of the most interesting and, at the same time, one of the most neglected questions in applied demography. Recently, however, several prominent economists have asserted the existence of such a link. Obviously, if such a link does exist, the policy to reduce illegitimacy and its attendant ills is close to hand. My purpose here is to show that, contrary to economists' claims, we are no closer…
Migration between core and peripheral regions: A description and tentative explanation of the patterns in 22 countries
On “A Catastrophe Model of Regional Dynamics”
Recent Migration Patterns in the Developed World: A Clarification of Some Differences between our and Nasa's Findings
This paper is a reply to two recently published critiques of our finding of a discontinuity in the recent internal migration patterns of Europe, Japan, and North America. Using data from the HAS A Human Settlements Systems Task, Hall-Hay and Gordon both fail to detect any significant narrowing in the differential between the growth rates of metropolitan areas and the growth rates of rural areas in Europe and Japan over the period 1950-1970 (they …
Comment on Mollenkopf's Review
Population Dispersal from Major Metropolitan Regions: An International Comparison
Of the eighteen countries studied in this paper, eleven (Japan, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Denmark, New Zealand, Belgium, France, West Germany, East Germany, and The Netherlands) show either a reversal in the direction of net population flow from their sparsely populated, peripheral regions to their densely populated core regions or a drastic reduction in the level of this net flow. In the first seven of these eleven countries, this reversal or reduc…
“Increasing Returns to City Size …”—A Reply to the Letter from P L Simons (1977)
Bad models with interesting physics and vice versa: Some comments on the Casetti and Isard-Liossatos papers
Bad Models With Interesting Physics and Vice Versa
The Rank-Size rule in the absence of growth
Increasing Returns to City Size in the Face of an Impending Decline in the Sizes of Large Cities: Which is the Bogus Fact
A summary of recently published statistics show an actual or imminent population decline in the great metropolitan regions of many, if not all, of the major industrialized nations (Japan, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Italy, the USA). The only exceptions so far found to this emerging trend are Finland and Hungary
Migration between core and peripheral regions: A description and tentative explanation of the patterns in 22 countries
A Demonstration That the Current Deconcentration of Population in the United States is a Clean Break with the Past
An initial reaction among many observers of urban America to recently released data showing a net migration out of its metropolitan areas is that this phenomenon must reflect nothing more than an accelerated expansion of these areas beyond their conventionally defined borders. This paper tests this hypothesis by tracing out the behavior of the Hoover index for five levels of areal disaggregation in the US. In Statistical Geography, Duncan and his…
Autocorrelated Growth Rates and the Pareto Law: A Further Analysis
The Rank-Size rule in the absence of growth
Increasing Returns to City Size in the Face of an Impending Decline in the Sizes of Large Cities: Which is the Bogus Fact
A summary of recently published statistics show an actual or imminent population decline in the great metropolitan regions of many, if not all, of the major industrialized nations (Japan, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Italy, the USA). The only exceptions so far found to this emerging trend are Finland and Hungary
Recent Migration Patterns in the Developed World: A Clarification of Some Differences between our and Nasa's Findings
This paper is a reply to two recently published critiques of our finding of a discontinuity in the recent internal migration patterns of Europe, Japan, and North America. Using data from the HAS A Human Settlements Systems Task, Hall-Hay and Gordon both fail to detect any significant narrowing in the differential between the growth rates of metropolitan areas and the growth rates of rural areas in Europe and Japan over the period 1950-1970 (they …
The spatial distribution of human populations and its characteristics evolution over time: Some recent evidence from Japan
Measuring natural resource scarcity
The Growth of Core Urban Regions in Developing Countries
The highly disproportionate concentration of population and economic activity in the core urban regions of developing countries poses a serious demographic problem for Third World governments. This paper presents estimates of the rate of population redistribution to the metropolitan regions of 44 countries over the period 1950-80. The principal finding is that the core areas of most developing countries are still experiencing quite high--in some …
Population Concentration in Less Developed Countries: New Evidence
Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History
Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history, thus ended Darwin's Origin of Species. For many years, the book provoked a flood of argument, but yielded little evidence. In the first century after the book's publication, virtually no one tested Darwin's theory against the evidence of human history. Now that tide has changed.. Laura Betzig challenges the proposition that the evolved end of human life is its reproduction by present…
Family Salaries and the East German Birth Rate: A Comment
Richard Tomlinson, in a recent article on the French population debate in The Public Interest, America's leading neoconservative journal, states that When in 1977 the East German government introduced a 'family salary' of the kind advocated by [former French Prime Minister Michel] Debre, it had no perceptible impact on the birth rate . . . (pp. 118-119).' But, something had a perceptible impact on the East German birth rate around this time. From…
The Yule-Simon Model in its Limiting Case as a Pure Migration Process
In this paper the author offers an analytical solution to a problem first raised in 1973, namely, what is the equilibrium distribution of city sizes implied by the Yule-Simon model, when the total population of the urban system in question is stationary? Under the assumption that in-migration and out-migration rates are uncorrelated with city sizes, it is shown that Fisher's log-series distribution is that distribution. Fisher's log-series distri…
Illegitimacy and Public Policy
The possibility of a link between and illegitimacy is one of the most interesting and, at the same time, one of the most neglected questions in applied demography. Recently, however, several prominent economists have asserted the existence of such a link. Obviously, if such a link does exist, the policy to reduce illegitimacy and its attendant ills is close to hand. My purpose here is to show that, contrary to economists' claims, we are no closer…
On “A Catastrophe Model of Regional Dynamics”
Stability in the Pareto Law and the Popular Folklore: A Comment
The Spatial Distribution of Human Populations and Its Characteristic Evolution Over Time: Some Recent Evidence From Japan
The spatial distribution of human populations and its characteristics evolution over time: Some recent evidence from Japan
Autocorrelated Growth Rates and the Pareto Law: A Further Analysis
“Increasing Returns to City Size …”—A Reply to the Letter from P L Simons (1977)
Bad models with interesting physics and vice versa: Some comments on the Casetti and Isard-Liossatos papers
Bad Models With Interesting Physics and Vice Versa
The Rank-Size rule in the absence of growth
Increasing Returns to City Size in the Face of an Impending Decline in the Sizes of Large Cities: Which is the Bogus Fact
A summary of recently published statistics show an actual or imminent population decline in the great metropolitan regions of many, if not all, of the major industrialized nations (Japan, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Italy, the USA). The only exceptions so far found to this emerging trend are Finland and Hungary
Some Evidence from Japan on the Efficiency of Land Markets
When an investor enters the real-estate market, can he detect a profitable parcel of land simply by observing how its price (or, more realistically, prices of like parcels in its general vicinity) has behaved in the immediate past? For example, if we observe land prices in a certain area of a city or even of a country to be rising at a rapid rate, is it reasonable to expect prices there to continue to rise at this rapid rate? If so, the market is…
A Demonstration That the Current Deconcentration of Population in the United States is a Clean Break with the Past
An initial reaction among many observers of urban America to recently released data showing a net migration out of its metropolitan areas is that this phenomenon must reflect nothing more than an accelerated expansion of these areas beyond their conventionally defined borders. This paper tests this hypothesis by tracing out the behavior of the Hoover index for five levels of areal disaggregation in the US. In Statistical Geography, Duncan and his…
Population Dispersal from Major Metropolitan Regions: An International Comparison
Of the eighteen countries studied in this paper, eleven (Japan, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Denmark, New Zealand, Belgium, France, West Germany, East Germany, and The Netherlands) show either a reversal in the direction of net population flow from their sparsely populated, peripheral regions to their densely populated core regions or a drastic reduction in the level of this net flow. In the first seven of these eleven countries, this reversal or reduc…
Comment on Mollenkopf's Review
Recent Migration Patterns in the Developed World: A Clarification of Some Differences between our and Nasa's Findings
This paper is a reply to two recently published critiques of our finding of a discontinuity in the recent internal migration patterns of Europe, Japan, and North America. Using data from the HAS A Human Settlements Systems Task, Hall-Hay and Gordon both fail to detect any significant narrowing in the differential between the growth rates of metropolitan areas and the growth rates of rural areas in Europe and Japan over the period 1950-1970 (they …
Migration between core and peripheral regions: A description and tentative explanation of the patterns in 22 countries
On “A Catastrophe Model of Regional Dynamics”
Quality Considerations in Population Policy
Illegitimacy and Public Policy
The possibility of a link between and illegitimacy is one of the most interesting and, at the same time, one of the most neglected questions in applied demography. Recently, however, several prominent economists have asserted the existence of such a link. Obviously, if such a link does exist, the policy to reduce illegitimacy and its attendant ills is close to hand. My purpose here is to show that, contrary to economists' claims, we are no closer…
The Yule-Simon Model in its Limiting Case as a Pure Migration Process
In this paper the author offers an analytical solution to a problem first raised in 1973, namely, what is the equilibrium distribution of city sizes implied by the Yule-Simon model, when the total population of the urban system in question is stationary? Under the assumption that in-migration and out-migration rates are uncorrelated with city sizes, it is shown that Fisher's log-series distribution is that distribution. Fisher's log-series distri…
Family Salaries and the East German Birth Rate: A Comment
Richard Tomlinson, in a recent article on the French population debate in The Public Interest, America's leading neoconservative journal, states that When in 1977 the East German government introduced a 'family salary' of the kind advocated by [former French Prime Minister Michel] Debre, it had no perceptible impact on the birth rate . . . (pp. 118-119).' But, something had a perceptible impact on the East German birth rate around this time. From…
Industrial decentralization in Brazil: A query
The Growth of Core Urban Regions in Developing Countries
The highly disproportionate concentration of population and economic activity in the core urban regions of developing countries poses a serious demographic problem for Third World governments. This paper presents estimates of the rate of population redistribution to the metropolitan regions of 44 countries over the period 1950-80. The principal finding is that the core areas of most developing countries are still experiencing quite high--in some …
The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective
Social versus reproductive success: The central theoretical problem of human sociobiology
The fundamental postulate of sociobiology is that individuals exploit favorable environments to increase their genetic representation in the next generation. The data on fertility differentials among contemporary humans are not cotvietent with this postulate. Given the importance of Homo sapiens as an animal species in the natural world today, these data constitute particularly challenging and interesting problem for both human sociobiology and s…
Regional Dynamics: Studies in Adjustment Theory
Preface Part 1: A Theory of Regional Adjustment 1. The Adjustment Problem 2. Contemporary Regional Economic Structure 3. An Adjustment Model of Regional Production Part 2: Local Employment Profiles and Labour Demand 4. Fluctuations and Rigidities in Local Labour Markets 5. Regional Demand for Labour 6. The Risks of Local Adjustment Part 3: Regional Wages and Prices 7. Does Inflations Vary Between Cities? 8. Components of Local Inflation 9. Region…
Sociology (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Population (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Demography (10 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (9 works) · Law (5 works)