Encyclopedia of Population

This new two‐volume work from Macmillan Reference, an imprint of the Thomson Gale publishing family, is concerned with population as a field of study or what is often termed “Population studies”. In their succinct, but lucid and helpful preface, the editors note the multidisciplinary and wide ranging nature of the subject, briefly plot the development of population as an area of study from Malthus to the present and outline the scope and purpose of the Encyclopedia. Demeny and McNicoll, both of whom are at the Population Council in New York, head an editorial board of 12 mainly US academics...