These new and revised essays analyze the revolution in the human condition that is sweeping the world. He asks if free markets are the key to human improvement, as today's policy-makers often assert. His responses employ a rich social science approach, blending economic theory, history,...

"An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."-William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal "An important landmark...