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• catalog abstract ""In current intellectual and public discourse, the entire modern world - from the affluent United States to the poorest low-income regions - is beset today by a broad and alarming array of "population problems." Around the globe, leading scientists, academics, and political figures attribute poverty, hunger, social tension, and even political conflict to contemporary demographic trends. These authorities assert that the size, composition, and growth rate of population routinely pose direct and major threats to human well-being. They argue for interventions aimed specifically at altering society's demographic rhythms. In this wide-ranging and carefully reasoned book, renowned demographer and social scientist Nicholas Eberstadt challenges these ideas and exposes their glaring intellectual shortcomings." "Eberstadt warns against a melodramatic approach to issues such as hunger and malnutrition. Material advances in the economy and cultural advances in the polity are safeguards against the worst outcomes of current problems in population. His reversal of cause and effect marks this as a volume apart, provocative, controversial, but surefooted in its scholarly sensibility and methods. In an academic world in which demographers are now speaking of the peaking of population rather that its infinite expansion. Eberstadt moves the discussion to family ties and common bonds. Demographers and family planners alike have much to learn from an approach that takes seriously the pitfalls as well as blessings of so-called zero-growth in the world population."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Prosperous paupers and other population problems".
• catalog contributor b11394781.
• catalog coverage "Communist countries Population.".
• catalog coverage "United States Population.".
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Eberstadt warns against a melodramatic approach to issues such as hunger and malnutrition. Material advances in the economy and cultural advances in the polity are safeguards against the worst outcomes of current problems in population. His reversal of cause and effect marks this as a volume apart, provocative, controversial, but surefooted in its scholarly sensibility and methods. In an academic world in which demographers are now speaking of the peaking of population rather that its infinite expansion. Eberstadt moves the discussion to family ties and common bonds. Demographers and family planners alike have much to learn from an approach that takes seriously the pitfalls as well as blessings of so-called zero-growth in the world population."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""In current intellectual and public discourse, the entire modern world - from the affluent United States to the poorest low-income regions - is beset today by a broad and alarming array of "population problems." Around the globe, leading scientists, academics, and political figures attribute poverty, hunger, social tension, and even political conflict to contemporary demographic trends. These authorities assert that the size, composition, and growth rate of population routinely pose direct and major threats to human well-being. They argue for interventions aimed specifically at altering society's demographic rhythms.".
• catalog description "In this wide-ranging and carefully reasoned book, renowned demographer and social scientist Nicholas Eberstadt challenges these ideas and exposes their glaring intellectual shortcomings."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Population Problems in the United States. 1. Prosperous Paupers and Affluent Savages: The New Challenges to Social Policy in America. 2. Why Babies Die in D.C. 3. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Epidemiologist -- pt. II. Population Problems Under Communism. 4. Mortality and the Fate of Communist States. 5. The Soviet Way of Death. 6. Health and Mortality in Eastern Europe: Retrospect and Prospect. 7. Demographic Shocks in Eastern Germany, 1989-1993 -- pt. III. Global Population Problems. 8. Justifying Population Control: The Latest Arguments. 9. Starved for Ideas: Misconceptions that Hinder the Battle Against World Hunger. 10. Population Prospects for Eastern Asia to 2015: Trends and Implications.".
• catalog extent "x, 272 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1560004231 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
• catalog spatial "Communist countries Population.".
• catalog spatial "United States Population.".
• catalog subject "304.6 21".
• catalog subject "HB3505 .E25 2000".
• catalog subject "Population forecasting.".
• catalog subject "Population.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Population Problems in the United States. 1. Prosperous Paupers and Affluent Savages: The New Challenges to Social Policy in America. 2. Why Babies Die in D.C. 3. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Epidemiologist -- pt. II. Population Problems Under Communism. 4. Mortality and the Fate of Communist States. 5. The Soviet Way of Death. 6. Health and Mortality in Eastern Europe: Retrospect and Prospect. 7. Demographic Shocks in Eastern Germany, 1989-1993 -- pt. III. Global Population Problems. 8. Justifying Population Control: The Latest Arguments. 9. Starved for Ideas: Misconceptions that Hinder the Battle Against World Hunger. 10. Population Prospects for Eastern Asia to 2015: Trends and Implications.".
• catalog title "Prosperous paupers and other population problems".
• catalog title "Prosperous paupers, and other population problems / by Nicholas Eberstadt.".
• catalog type "text".