Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution
Selected Essays

This collection features essays on 'modern economic growth' and the interrelations between demographic change and income inequality.

Simon Kuznets (Author)

9780521521963, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 September 2002

472 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 3 cm, 0.763 kg

"Throughout this book...the elegant simplicity, but extraordinary power of Kuznets' vision is palpable." Journal of Economic Literature

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ]