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Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
population and development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.836
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1728-4457
pISSN - 0098-7921
DOI - 10.1111/j.1728-4457.1999.00789.x
Subject(s) - peasant , politics , population , state (computer science) , citizenship , modernity , census , order (exchange) , china , humanities , pace , sociology , history , economic history , geography , political science , demography , philosophy , law , economics , finance , geodesy , algorithm , computer science
Books reviewed in this article: Christopher Wills, Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionHelen Fisher, The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the WorldLionel Tiger, The Decline of MalesFrancis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social OrderTom Kirkwood, Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human AgingMargo J. Anderson And Stephen E. Fienberg, Who Counts? The Politics of Census‐Taking in Contemporary AmericaAlain Desrosières, The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning . Translation by Camille Naish of La politique des grands nombres: histoire de la raison statistique .Henk A. de Gans, Population Forecasting 1895–1945: The Transition to ModernityMassimo Livi‐Bacci and Gustavo De Santis (eds.), Population and Poverty in the Developing WorldWilliam A. Jackson, The Political Economy of Population AgeingDorothy J. Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market