During the years I taught at the University of Ghana, the United Nations sponsored a Regional Institute for Population Studies there, infelicitously known by the acronym RIPS. Occasionally I picked up literature produced by the institute on ethical issues surrounding population control; in the process I learned some demographic jargon, such as the division of cultures into nata (...)
October 21, 2011
Books
Fertile Crescent?
A Convergence of CivilizationsThe Transformation of Muslim Societies around the WorldYoussef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd
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