This paper examines the very long-run relationship between income and emissions of enteric methane in New Zealand, over the period 1895 to 1996. Controlling the emissions of this particular greenhouse gas is of crucial importance if that country is to meet its obligations as a signatory to the...

"Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan" shows how population quality – specifically, the population quality of schoolchildren in Japan, as measured with extensive figures on height, weight, chest girth, and the body mass index – provides a key to understanding economic growth and...

"Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth" provides a detailed examination of the industrial development of the country since the Meiji Restoration and shows the extent to which Japan's own urbanization played a crucial role in its overall economic development....