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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... means of mitigating or avoiding altogether the crunch of too many people . As another example , in one passage of the Essay Malthus re- marked , almost incidentally , that population growth in a coun- try with private property is ...
... means of subsistence , ... [ by which they are ] indirectly producing their actual material life .... This production only makes its appear- ance with the increase of population . " '' The last important element in a Marxist theory of ...
... means the tendency of population always to 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 ...
... means of produc- tion and extracted the " surplus " created , respectively , by slaves , serfs , and industrial workers . Marx ridiculed antagonists who avoided such a social - class analysis , but he himself pointedly re- frained from ...
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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 |