And here Livi Bacci provides an insight that I think finally moves the Malthusian conversation forwards. Desired number of children is not primarily cultural, but economic. The subject matter is wide ranging, though it does focus a lot on demographics.
A Concise History of World Population. by Massimo Livi-Bacci. Livi-Bacci is at his best on the big current issues of the discipline-for instance, on population and develop
A Concise History of World Population. Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell 2012. Livi-Bacci is at his best on the big current issues of the discipline-for instance, on population and develop-. ment, on Malthus versus Boserup, and on increasing or decreasing returns to scale. This is a remarkable and. sensitive summary of these vast and important literatures. While Livi-Bacci frequently says that he is providing.
Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. For the amount of time it covers, it's a pretty concise book, and is a good overview of demographic theory and the history of human population. It shows the impact of industry, agriculture, medical advances, disease spread from globalism and European migration on the world. The biggest con is that it has too strong of a focus on European demography.
Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at theUniversity of Florence. He has taught and held fellowships atuniversities all over the world, including Princeton University,the University of California at Berkeley, the College deFrance, and the Colegio de Mexico
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Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence
Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. He has taught and held fellowships at universities all over the world, including Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, the Collège de France, and the Colegio de México. He has taught and held fellowships at universities all over the world, including Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, the Collège de France, and the Colegio de México
Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. His books include Population and Nutrition (1991), The Population of Europe. He has been President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has published extensively on contemporary demography as well as on the history of population, and has taught or held fellowships at universities all over the world, including the College de France, the Colegio de Mexico, Princeton University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University, Providence, RI. A History (1999), and Conquista.
Massimo Livi Bacci (November 9, 1936) is an Italian professor of Demography, School of Political Science Cesare Alfieri, University of Florence and Department of Statistics, Computing, Applications Giuseppe Parenti. Livi Bacci was born in Florence. In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Political Science Cesare Alfieri of the University of Florence. In 1960-61 he studied at Brown University, supported by a Fulbright scholarship.