Historical Population Estimates: Unraveling the Consensus
Caldwell, John; Schindlmayr, Thomas
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The mid-twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a remarkable consensus on quantitative estimates of world population growth after 1650. This was the achievement of Walter Willcox, supported and modified by Alexander Carr-Saunders and John Durand, and was endorsed by United Nations publications. It had its origin in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century work, largely carried out in Germany. Willcox was particularly interested in demonstrating seventeenth-century population growth as evidence...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2002 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/89699 |
Source: | Population and Development Review |
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