Political Arithmetic: A Symposium of Population Studies. (Inscribed by Hogben to Gunnar Dahlberg.)

531 pp; illus. Original cloth. Very Good+, in torn dust jacket. Inscribed: 'Gunnar Dahlberg/from/Lancelot Hogben/and/Enid thanks'. Hogben translated Dahlberg's Race-Reason and Rubbish: A Primer of Race Biology (University of Chicago Press, 1942). '[Dahlberg] had good relations with British scientists, among them the medical statistician Lancelot Hogben, who shared his socialist views and also translated his works.' Dahlberg's scientific work is cataloged in L. C. Dunn, Lancelot Hogben, T. Kemp, and J. A. Böök, eds., 'In Honour of Gunnar Dahlberg,' Acta Genetica, 4 (1953). Chapter 3 (pp. 106160) = Enid Charles & Pearl Moshinsky, 'Differential Fertility in England and Wales during the Past Two Decades.' 'Charles met the conscientious objector Lancelot Hogben while at Cambridge; they married in 1918. Out of a dozen or so socialist and feminist couples in Britain in the early 20th century, Charles was the only wife to keep her name.' Contents: Part I - The Survival Minimum Introduction - Prolegomena to Political Arithmetic By Lancelot Hogben1. The International Decline of Fertility By R.R. Kuczynski 2. The Effect of Present Trends in Fertility and Mortality upon the Future Population of Great Britain and upon its Age Composition By Enid Charles 3. Differential Fertility in England and Wales During the Past Two Decades By Enid Charles and Pearl Moshinsky 4. Changes in Fertility in England and Wales, 1851-1931 By D.V. Glass 5. The Changing Structure of the Family in Australia By Enid Charles 6. Marriage Frequency and Economic Fluctuations in England and Wales, 1851-1934 By D.V. Glass 7. British Demographers' Opinions on Fertility, 1660-1760 By R.R. Kuczynski Part II - The Recruitment of Social Personnel Introduction By Lancelot Hogben 8. Ability and Opportunity in English EducationBy J.L. Gray and Pearl Moshinsky 9. Ability and Educational Opportunity in relation to Parental Occupation By J.L. Gray and Pearl Moshinsky 10. Opportunity and the Older Universities By David V. Glass and J.L. Gray 11. The Relation Between Initial and Maximum Earnings and Differential Fertility of Skilled and Unskilled Wage-Earners By Enid Charles and David Morgan 12. The Distribution of the Blood-Groups and its Bearing on the Concept of Race By Allison Davis. …