Population Forecasting 1895-1945, the Transition to Modernity the Transition to Modernity
- List Price: $169.99
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
- Publish date: 12/01/1998
This book recounts the history of the origin and establishment of modern population forecasting methodology and the resistance the new methodology met with. It demonstrates -- using George Herbert Mead's philosophy of time -- that the emergence of modern population forecasting resulted in a drastic change of the societal position of the forecaster, the consequences of which still resound today. The book uncovers the first contributions to the description and theory of the demographic transition in the publications of the early innovators of population forecasting. It lays bare the pioneering position of inter-war population forecasting in The Netherlands and clarifies why the innovative endeavours of Dutch population forecasters of that period nevertheless remained hidden in international histories.
