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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... increase the population be- yond the numbers that can be fed . Socialists of every denomina- tion — not only Marx and Engels , but also , among others , Charles Hall , Robert Owen , Pierre Joseph Proudhon , Charles Fourier— all but ...
... increases , " and some of those in the " surplus population " may not survive . 18 In The German Ideology ( 1845-46 ) ... increase of population . " '' The last important element in a Marxist theory of population was a " history " of ...
... increasing mechanization there is a trend toward an ever larger number of unemployed — it still does not follow that this trend would exist " independently of the limits of actual increase of population . " 22 Given the state of the ...
... increase up to the limit set by the subsistence available to it . Thus , in a capitalist society supposedly a virtually unlimited supply of labor can always be hired at a more or less fixed low wage . The relation , given its ...
... increase in population — which mitigates the effects of underconsumption at least until the chil- dren are old enough to enter the work force . In a paper on a related topic , one of a series he wrote titled " Problems of Social- ism ...
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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 |