From Malthus to the Club of Rome and back : problems of limits to growth, population control, and migrations / Paul Neurath.

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1994], ©1994.

xvi, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

The early history of demography before Malthus -- How many people could live on this earth? Changes of an argument -- The "limits to growth" debate: from Malthus to the "Club of Rome" and back -- Models of the world's problems and problems with the world models -- Comments at the 6th Global Modeling Conference, Vienna-Laxenburg, 1978 -- On a contradiction within the Bariloche Model (It computes for the people of Asia more years of average life expectancy than food on which to live that long) -- The price and availability of oil and the food situation of the Third World -- Chinese population policy from 1949 to 1984 -- Population policies in Japan, China, and India: a comparison of problems and of measures taken -- The great migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Includes bibliographic references and index