Economic development, the family, and income distribution : selected essays
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Economic development, the family, and income distribution : selected essays
（Studies in economic history and policy : the United States in the twentieth century）
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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"Bibliography of Simon Kuznets" : p. 439-459
Includes index
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This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern economic growth'. Chapters five to seven introduce the main theme of the remainder of the volume: interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. Chapters eight to ten draw on a wider set of data to make comparisons of income inequality among societies at widely different levels of development. Chapter eleven returns to data for the United States to develop more fully the importance of differing childbearing patterns for income inequality. In the introduction Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. In the afterword Professor Robert Fogel discusses the methodologies favoured by Kuznets.
Table of Contents
- Preface Louis Galambos and Robert Gallman
- Foreword Richard A. Easterlin
- 1. Driving forces of economic growth: what can we learn from history? 2. A note on production structure and aggregate growth
- 3. The pattern of shift of labor force from agriculture, 1950-70
- 4. Modern economic growth and the less developed countries
- 5. Notes on demographic change
- 6. Recent population trends in less developed countries and implications for internal income inequality
- 7. Demographic aspects of the size distrubution of income: an exploratory essay
- 8. Size and age structure of family households: exploratory comparisons
- 9. Size of households and income disparities
- 10. Distributions of households by size: differences and trends
- 11. Children and adults in the income distribution
- Afterword Robert William Fogel
- Bibliography of Simon Kuznets
- Index.
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