Economic Theory, Demography
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Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World PopulationListen to a short interview with Matthew ConnellyHost: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & CraneFatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once, and then...
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Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial CaliforniaThis innovative examination of the Yosemite Indian experience in California poses broad challenges to our understanding of the complex, destructive encounters that took place between colonists and native peoples across North America. Looking closely at archaeological data, native oral tradition, and historical accounts, Kathleen...
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Eight Billion Reasons Population Matters: The Defining Issue of the 21st CenturyHave you been wondering why our environmental progress has been so disappointing?The world is about to hit a staggering population level of EIGHT BILLION people living on one small planet. In this provocative and critically acclaimed must-read, Valorie M. Allen dares to connect those...
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Science for Governing Japan's PopulationTwenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these population phenomena...
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The Who, What, and Where of America: Understanding the American Community SurveyThe Who, What, and Where of America is designed to provide a sampling of key demographic information. It covers the United States, every state, each metropolitan statistical area, and all the counties and cities with a population of 20,000 or more. Who: Age, Race...
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Towards a General Theory of Boredom: A Case Study of Anglo and Russian SocietyThrough comparative historical research, this book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian topology of cross-cultural boredom, it grounds the sociological cause of boredom in anomie and the perception of time, compares its development through case studies...
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Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary WorldThis book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world.Do mechanisms or structures in nation-states produce...
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Digital Democracy, Social Media and DisinformationDigital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation discusses some of the political, regulatory and technological issues which arise from the increased power of internet intermediaries (such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) and the impact of the spread of digital disinformation, especially in the midst of...
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C2C Galaxy (black & white edition): Full Cycles OnlyThe famous hologram of the legendary Cradle to Cradle co-founder, his two teenage, daredevil cohorts and a mysterious boy from planet Earth have to risk everything to protect their C2C Galaxy from two evil scientists and their vicious army of the Linearmore Alliance. The...
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Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan Volume 8Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give...
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Generation Z: A Century in the MakingNo other generation in history has received as much coverage as the Millennial generation. Books, Google searches, blogs, and news articles are everywhere about them. Yet, Generation Z is comprised of our youth and young adults today and has received very little attention comparatively....
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Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts AheadDemographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change, but they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs? How will Generation Y alter housing and transportation? Which states will...
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American Indian Holocaust and Survival, Volume 186: A Population History Since 1492This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the New World,...
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Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the WorldWhat do India's millennials want and how are they transforming one of the youngest, most populous nations in the world? More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five, but India's millennials are nothing like their counterparts in the West. In a...
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Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass PublicAmericans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. Through statistics like these, we feel that we understand our fellow...
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Anthropological Demography: Toward a New SynthesisAlthough in its early years anthropology often used demographic research and showed interest in demographic issues, anthropology and demography have more recently grown to distrust each other's guiding assumptions and methods. Demographers have stressed universal causal models and standardized survey methods, while sociocultural anthropologists...
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Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800Arguing that demographic thought begins not with quantification but in attempts to control the qualities of people, Human Empire traces two transformations spanning the early modern period. First was the emergence of population as an object of governance through a series of engagements in...
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Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological EncountersDealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism,...
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High Dimensional Space to Formulate Marriage and Birth FunctionsWith the collapse of Demographic Transition Theory, new theories of population must not just be explanations, but should be falsifiable theories which can compute the number of occurrences of marriages and births. This book reviews computable marriage and birth function using dynamic properties. To...
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The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in IndiaThe Population Myth reveals how the right-wing spin to population data has given rise to myths about the 'Muslim rate of growth', often used to stoke majoritarian fears of a demographic skew. The author, S.Y. Quraishi, uses facts to demolish these, and demonstrates how...
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