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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... less the significance of the content than the much enhanced interest in anything to do with Malthus . Moreover , there has been at least a partial rejection of the routine disparagement that had once prevailed . In 1980 the Societe de ...
... less developed countries , one should note , have seldom if ever included the suggestion that the conversion of state enterprises to free enterprise would contribute to the success of the pro- grams . In 1997 , as an important element ...
... less as a significant component of history than as an epiphenomenon . Moreover , the several incidental strands in various contexts do not add up to a consistent theory . When today's remaining Marxists try to use past works as a ...
... less efficient technology , and male workers are replaced by females , mature workers by children . In the long term no amelioration is possible under capitalism , which depends on this " industrial reserve army " of technologically ...
... less fixed low wage . The relation , given its designation by the German social- ist Ferdinand Lassalle , was analyzed most fully by Malthus's con- temporary , David Ricardo . For him , as for Marx , the rigidity of wages was a ...
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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 |