Fertility and Scarcity in America

by Peter H. Lindert

Book Overview

Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate income per capita, depleting natural resources, reducing the quality of the environment, and causing more unequal distribution of income. Maintaining that the order of these concerns should be reversed, Peter H. Lindert emphasizes the tendency of higher fertility and population growth to heighten economic inequalities. His analysis also improves our knowledge of the ways in which economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691613001
• ISBN13: 9780691613000
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"