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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... persons . The contrast between my experience and this subsequent volume suggests the extraordinary shift in scholarly interest in Malthus over a rather short time . When a great - grandson of Malthus's older brother Sydenham died in ...
... persons would mean either more capi- talists or more workers , and neither of these social classes could remedy the overproduction.31 An extended exposition of underconsumption appeared ( so far as I know for the first time in Marxist ...
... persons from where they were re- dundant to where they would be useful . The message of The Wealth of Nations that the state is not needed to run the economy , that the right of men to move about freely brings benefits also to society ...
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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 |