Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy
Year: 1994
Type: report
Abstract: Prepared for presentation as the Prize Lecture in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, December 9, 1993.Since this lecture is based on research still in progress, it is important to emphasize that the findings reported here are provisional and are subject to change as the current databases expand and as the analyses of these data are refined.Nevertheless, I believe that the general outlines of the emerging new theories of mortality, morbidity, and aging are likely to survive further research.Research reported in this paper was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (#PO1-AG1O12O-02),
DOI: 10.3386/w4638
Author: Robert Fogel
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1593653116