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24-09-2012
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The University of Chicago Press
Auteur(s)
Derek S. Hoff
The State and the Stork
The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
Derek S. Hoff
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“A
powerful
model
of
how
to
understand
the
complex
array
of
issues
that
will
shape
the
political
economy
of
population
in
the
future.”—American
Historical
ReviewFrom
the
founders’
fears
that
crowded
cities
would
produce
corruption,
luxury,
and
vice
to
the
zero
population
growth
movement
of
the
late
1960s
to
today’s
widespread
fears
of
an
aging
crisis
as
the
Baby
Boomers
retire,
the
American
population
debate
has
always
concerned
much
more
than
racial
composition
or
resource
exhaustion,
the
aspects
of
the
debate
usually
emphasized
by
historians.
In
The
State
and
the
Stork,
Derek
Hoff
draws
on
his
extraordinary
knowledge
of
the
intersections
between
population
and
economic
debates
throughout
American
history
to
explain
the
many
surprising
ways
that
population
anxieties
have
provoked
unexpected
policies
and
political
developments—including
the
recent
conservative
revival.
At
once
a
fascinating
history
and
a
revelatory
look
at
the
deep
origins
of
a
crucial
national
conversation,
The
State
and
the
Stork
could
not
be
timelier.“Hoff
has
done
a
real
service
by
bringing
to
the
foreground
the
economic
dimension
of
U.S.
debates
over
population
size
and
growth,
a
topic
that
has
been
relegated
to
the
shadows
for
too
long.”—Population
and
Development
Review“After
decades
of
failed
efforts
by
the
scientific
community
to
alert
the
public
to
the
environmental
dangers
of
population
growth
and
overpopulation,
a
first-rate
historian
has
finally
detailed
both
the
arguments
and
their
policy
implications
.
.
.
Everyone
interested
in
population
should
read
The
State
and
the
Stork.
This
is
an
incredibly
timely
book.”—Paul
R.
Ehrlich,
author
of
The
Population Bomb
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