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Book
Fewer, Richer, Greener
2019
Overview
Intro -- Fewer, Richer, Greener -- Contents -- Foreword -- On Capitalism and Humane True Liberalism -- Apocalypse Now . . . or Apocalypse Not? -- Free Markets and Free Minds -- A Big and Rich Africa? -- Conscious Capitalism -- Perils and Promise of the Future -- Population and the Environment -- Rational Optimism -- Preface -- How I Came to Write This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Great Betterment -- 1 Right Here, Right Now -- The Charming Little House -- A Tale of Three Authors -- Matt Ridley: How Prosperity Evolves -- Hans Rosling: Poor and Sick to Rich and Healthy -- The World in 1800: Mostly Poor and Sick -- The World in 1948: Maximum Inequality, the End of the Great Divergence -- The World in 2018: The Great Convergence Finally Takes Hold -- Conclusion -- Part II Fewer -- 2 The Population Explosion, Malthus, and the Ghost of Christmas Present -- What Happened to the Population Hockey Stick? -- Falling Birth Rates: Boon or Disaster? -- \"The Paragon of Animals\" -- Malthus's Dismal Theory -- Malthus's Mistake -- From Malthus to Modernism -- The Modern Voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present -- Conclusion -- 3 The Demographic Transition: Running Out of and Into People -- The Demographic Transition and Population Momentum -- Stage 1: Shoemaker and Morning Star -- Stage 2: The Population Explosion Begins -- Stage 3: Toward a New Equilibrium -- Stage 4: Population Stability at a High Level -- Stage 5: The Fertility of the Very Rich -- An Aging and Stabilizing World -- The High-fertility World: A Shrinking Geography, a Growing Population -- Sub-Saharan Africa: The Last Fertility Frontier -- 4 Having Fewer Children: \"People Respond to Incentives\" -- The Low-Fertility World: No Longer the Exception, but the Rule -- Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold-Just Right -- Newcomers to the Low-fertility World -- East Asia, Epicenter of Childlessness.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
ISBN
1119526930, 9781119526933
