Comment on J.-Y. Parlange, M. J. Guilfoyle, and R. E. Rickson’s “mortality levels and family fertility goals”

Z. Yi, E. M. Crimmins, Y. Carrière and J.-M. Robine, Longer Life and Healthy Aging

This book is one of the results of a very productive initiative by the IUSSP on ‘‘Longevity and Health’’. After a thematic introduction by the editors, the chapters are divided into four parts, each with its own summary. They are: Disability and Healthy Life Expectancy; Individual Healthy Aging; The Family and Healthy Aging; and Community Effects on Healthy Aging. Parts II–IV have a natural hie...

How , M . J . , Christy , J . H . , Temple , S . E . , Hemmi , J . M . , Justin Marshall , N .

Religion and Spirituality: Adam Smith versus J-J Rousseau

Adam Smith and J-J Rousseau share some common ground when it comes to religion, namely that they were born into  and educated in cultural contexts deeply shaped by Reformed Christianity. However, close consideration of their writings on religion reveal marked difference. This paper explores those differences and finds that Rousseau and Smith are radically at odds on this score. Smith has almost...

Comment (on Robert J. Gordon)

Swinkels , J . M . and Lam , T . J . G . M .

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