Population Dynamics and World-Systems Analysis

• Published in: Journal of world-systems research Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 207 - 228
• Main Author: Danna, Daniela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pittsburgh University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 01.07.2014
• Subjects: Accumulation; Capitalism; Children; Decisions; Demography; Elderly; England; Family Planning; Famine; Fertility; Households; Human Reproduction; Mortality; Mortality Rates; Political power; Population; Profits; Society; Systems analysis; Trends; Turn of the Century; Women; World System Theory

World-systems analysis has given scant attention to population dynamics. Overlooked are large-scale macrohistorical population trends and their microhistorical foundation on procreative decisions-decisions which are taken by a historically changing subject of procreation: local elders or other autho...