彭松健所著《西方人口经济学概论》由北京大学出版社出版.这是一本颇富新意、内容丰富的好书,一问世便引起了各界人士的注目,并很快获得了北京大学社会科学成果奖.《概论》评介了西方人口经济学的形成史和研究对象.接着,用一篇之幅介绍了资产阶级古典经济学派的人口经济学说,其中包括重商主义者和配第、魁奈、斯密、李嘉图及西斯蒙第等人的思想理论.古典学派对人口问题的乐观态度,很自然地使人联想起《概论》第五篇第十六章介绍的 Peng Songjian's “Introduction to Western Demography Economics” was published by Peking University Press, a novel and informative book that attracted the attention of people from all walks of life as soon as it came out and quickly won the approval of Peking University Social Sciences Achievement Prize.The Introduction introduced the history and research object of the western population economics, and then introduced the theory of population economics of the bourgeois classical economics school with an article, including mercantilist, , Smith, Ricardo and Sismondi et al. The optimism of the classical school on population issues naturally reminds us of the introduction of Chapter 16 of Chapter V of the Introduction