{"id":38574,"date":"2009-10-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/la-revolution-demographique-selon-adolphe-landry-1\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T08:20:49","slug":"la-revolution-demographique-selon-adolphe-landry-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/la-revolution-demographique-selon-adolphe-landry-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demographic Revolution according to Adolphe Landry (1934). From the Subordination of Peoples to the Principle of the Rationalization of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'>Though his background was largely in literature, the French writer Adolphe Landry (1874-1956) began his political life and career specializing mainly in the economic field. Not until the 1920s (except for a tentative preliminary incursion in 1909) did he enter the field of demography, his principal contribution being La R\u00e9volution d\u00e9mographique [The Demographic Revolution], published in 1934. That work, an under-rated precursor of the theory of \u201cdemographic transition\u201d, is interesting on various counts, as demographer Alain Parant demonstrates here.\n\nThe work provides a survey of global population development from the 18th century to the inter-war period, on the basis of which Landry distinguishes three successive demographic regimes, the last of which inevitably leads, in his view, to population stagnation or even to depopulation. Though some predictions drawn by Landry from his analysis of the demographic development of the industrialized countries may be open to question in the light of currently observed facts, in the longer term \u2013 as Alain Parant shows, particularly in respect of the period following the end of the Second World War \u2013 there is every reason to believe that he may be right.\n\nIn many developed countries, the population has increased only as a result of immigration and greater life-expectancy, the latter having led to an ageing of the population. Where births \u2013 and, especially, fertility \u2013 are concerned, the long-term trend is, rather, towards inertia, which might well confirm Adolphe Landry\u2019s argument. Unless, that is, as he himself advocated and strove to achieve through his activity in the field of family policy, the public authorities develop powerful incentives to boost the birth rate (by way of family allowances, childcare facilities etc.).<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though his background was largely in literature, the French writer Adolphe Landry (1874-1956) began his political life and career specializing mainly in the economic field. Not until the 1920s (except for a tentative preliminary incursion in 1909) did he enter the field of demography, his principal contribution being La R\u00e9volution d\u00e9mographique [The Demographic Revolution], published &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/la-revolution-demographique-selon-adolphe-landry-1\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1324],"tags":[212],"keyword":[1168],"class_list":["post-38574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurs-dantan","category-revue-futuribles","tag-societe-en","keyword-population-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60366,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38574\/revisions\/60366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38574"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=38574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}