1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910280930903321

Titolo

2018 13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems : 24-27 April 2018, Vienna, Austria / / IEEE Computer Society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, , 2018

ISBN

1-5386-3346-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 pages)

Disciplina

651.5

Soggetti

Document imaging systems

Optical pattern recognition

Text processing (Computer science)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784440503321

Autore

Easterlin Richard A. <1926->

Titolo

The reluctant economist : perspectives on economics, economic history and demography / / Richard A. Easterlin [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14797-2

1-280-47782-2

0-511-19522-2

0-511-19588-5

0-511-19381-5

0-511-31424-8

0-511-61673-2

0-511-19455-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Economic history

Demography

United States Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; tables; figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Reluctant Economist; 2 Economics and the Use of Subjective Testimony; 3 Is Economic Growth Creating a New Postmaterialistic Society?; 4 Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?; 5 Kuznets Cycles and Modern Economic Growth; 6 Industrial Revolution and Mortality Revolution: Two of a Kind?; 7 How Beneficent Is the Market?; 8 An Economic Framework for Fertility Analysis; 9 New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition

10 Does Human Fertility Adjust to the Environment? Population Change and Farm Settlement in the Northern United States11 America's Baby Boom and Bust, 1940-1980: Causes and Consequences; 12 Preferences and Prices in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Where is rapid economic growth taking us? Why has its spread throughout the world been so limited? What are the causes of the great twentieth century advance in life expectancy? Of the revolution in childbearing that is bringing fertility worldwide to near replacement levels? Have free markets been the source of human improvement? Economics provides a start on these questions, but only a start, argues economist Richard A. Easterlin. To answer them calls for merging economics with concepts and data from other social sciences, and with quantitative and qualitative history. Easterlin demonstrates this approach in seeking answers to these and other questions about world or American experience in the last two centuries, drawing on economics, demography, sociology, history, and psychology. The opening chapter gives an autobiographical account of the evolution of this approach, and why Easterlin is a 'reluctant economist'.