Malthus: Founder of Modern DemographyTransaction Publishers - 302 σελίδες Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), one of the most influential of modern thinkers, is also one of the most misunderstood. Malthus' Essay on Population is a work that everyone cites but typically without having read it. This book offers a comprehensive and accurate exposition of his thought, integrating his better-known theory on population with his somewhat neglected analysis of economic development and social structure. |
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... example , everyone in the discipline is acquainted with the theory linking upward social mobility with smaller families , and most would trace it to Depopulation et civilisation by Arsene Dumont , published in 1890. But almost a century ...
... example , in one passage of the Essay Malthus re- marked , almost incidentally , that population growth in a coun- try with private property is curtailed by much more than a lim- ited availability of land and the food grown on it . " In ...
... example , Alfred Sauvy , who was until his death the dean of French demographers , titled one chapter in his princi- pal work " Les pays sousdeveloppes : Marx on Malthus ? Or , as an- other instance , the distinguished French ...
... examples of it into Western " feudalism . " 29 Thus , if Marx can be said to have had a theory of population , it omitted those portions of the globe that have become a main focus of present - day demographers . If countries like India ...
... la population , vol . I : Economic et population ( Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1952 ) , chap , xviii . 14. Encounter , August 1954 . 15. Examples chosen almost xxi Introduction to the Transaction Edition.
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His Life and Work | 21 |
The Principle of Population | 38 |
Minor Quibbles and Gross Misunderstandings | 58 |
Economic Theory | 82 |
The Poor Law and Migration | 100 |
Population Growth | 135 |
Mortality | 156 |
Fertility | 180 |
The Malthusian Heritage | 218 |
Notes | 241 |
Works Cited | 259 |
Index | 291 |