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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... Perhaps the clearest symptom of the recognition now given him is that this gap has been filled with a 1986 edition in eight volumes . Before that , some of Malthus's writings were hard to find even in good libraries , especially short ...
... perhaps not unfairly summed up in that be- tween Malthusians and Marxists . " 16 In view of its continuing prominence , a commentary on this supposed relation between Malthus and Marx is still pertinent.17 How have major Marxists viewed ...
... perhaps most clearly from his stand on the Irish question , where he stood almost alone against the opinion of every party or faction : " Let the Irish Catholics have all they have demanded , for they have asked nothing but what strict ...
... perhaps provincial . The typical view — that " the industrial revolution " was not only the key to that era's massive transformation but almost its entire content — is false . One need not depreciate the im- portance of new machines ...
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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 |