Economic science and population theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4268565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A L Levine, Adina Levine (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-154 |
| Publication date | 1965-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00324728.1965.10406009 |
| OpenAlex | W1993573572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
The object of this paper is to comment upon the role that the population factor has played in theories of economic change and, more particularly, upon the progress that has been made by economists toward the construction of integrated theories of economic development and demographic change. In the twentieth century the two main sources of renewed interest in population among economists were, first of all, the great depression of the thirties together with aspects of the work of J. M. Keynes and A. H. Hansen on mature economies (the ‘stagnation thesis’) and, secondly, the economic problems of underdeveloped countries. The Hansen stagnation thesis and variants of it are essentially ‘unidirectional’ models of demographic influence upon economic variables in mature economies. An economic-demographic model for an economically mature country that represents an attempt to go beyond unidirectional relationships to an examination of mutual interaction between economic and demographic variables is the Orcutt-Rivlin model. Models ofeconomic change in underdeveloped countries have never been wholly untouched by population considerations, but sufficient attention has not always been paid to those functional relationships which would permit a more integrated approach. Moreover, even where these relationships have not been totally neglected, the articulation ofhypotheses relating to the conditions necessary for fertility decline in underdeveloped areas has not proceeded very far
Articulation (sociology) · Developing country · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic stagnation · Economic system · Economics · Fertility · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Population · Population growth · Sociology · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Economic theories and models · Economic Theory and Policy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2006 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |