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Untersuchung über die Auswirkungen der Kommerzialisierung und Exportentwicklung auf den landwirtschaftlichen Anbau sowie die Ernährungswirtschaft in Honduras seit Beginn der 60er Jahre

THIS ARTICLE TESTS THE HYPOTHESIS THAT POSTWAR AFFLUENCE LED TO AN INTERGENERATIONAL SHIFT FROM MATERIALIST TO POSTMATERIALIST VALUES AMONG WESTERN PUBLICS, AND ANALYZES THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY PREVAILING SINCE 1973. TIME-SERIES DATA INDICATE THAT THE YOUNG EMPHASIZING POST-MATERIALIST VALUES MORE THAN THE OLD REFLECTS GENERATIONAL CHANGE FAR MORE THAN AGING EFFECTS.

This article tests the hypothesis that postwar affluence led to an intergenerational shift from Materialist to Post-Materialist values among Western publics, and analyzes the consequences of the economic uncertainty prevailing since 1973. The young emphasize Post-Materialist values more than the old. Time-series data indicate that this reflects generational change far more than aging effects, but that the recession of the mid-1970s also produced significant period effects. As Post-Materialists aged, they moved out of the student ghetto and became a predominant influence among young technocrats, contributing to the rise of a "New Class." They furnish the ideologues and core support for the environmental, zero-growth and antinuclear movements; and their opposition to those who give top priority to reindustrialization and rearmament constitutes a distinctive and persisting dimension of political cleavage.

12 hypotheses concerning the relationships between economic development & population were tested using 3 measures of economic development--gross domestic product (GDP), protein consumption per capita, & % of LF in agriculture. 6 of the hypotheses are based on the Malthusian poverty model & 6 are based on a model where the sheer number of new people born causes poverty. The sample consisted of the 28 most populous capitalist countries & the 12 most populous communist countries in 1970. Upon analysis, both sets of hypotheses were rejected. There was no empirical evidence to support the contention that population increase limited economic development, on the contrary the more dense & rapidly growing the population, the more rapid the rise in GDP per capita. Structural causes of high fertility, poverty, & economic insecurity associated with capitalism & controlled in the communist countries, may explain the significantly higher level of economic development in the communist countries. 5 Tables, 1 Appendix. S. Lupton.