Book description
The Children of Eve
is the first book to bring together general material about population
and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of
demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over time and space
and which emphasizes the commonality of human experience.
- The first book to put together material about population and
well-being in a single volume
- Emphasizes the formative population history of Europe and North
America over the years since the Middle Ages, and includes
discussions of Asia and the southern hemisphere
- The authors successfully maintain the difficult balance of
addressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify the
subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general
readers and students
- Designed to work as both a stand alone text or a supplement to
textbooks in any number of courses
Louis P. Cain
is Professor of Economics at Loyola University Chicago, Adjunct
Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, Senior Investigator
at the Center for Population Economics, University of Chicago, and
Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He
received his Ph. D. from Northwestern. With the late Jonathan Hughes,
he is the author of
American Economic History
, now in its 8
th
edition (2011). His research includes projects on urban mortality,
urban sanitation, industrial development, and the economic history of
Chicago. He has served as a trustee of the Economic History Association
and the Business History Conference, and as chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Cliometric Society.
Donald G. Paterson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at
the University of British Columbia. He received his D. Phil from the
University of Sussex and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of Cambridge. He is the author (with William L Marr) of
Canada: An Economic History (1980) and has published widely
in the areas of history of international investment, economic history
of natural resource use, history of US technical change,
macro-economic history of Canada, and business history.
Cain and Paterson previously co-authored two articles on biased
technological change in The Journal of Economic History.
