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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... nificant difference . For Dumont , a fervent nationalist , French- men's attempts to rise in society by limiting their family respon- sibilities were an outrageous evasion of their civic duty ; ' R Introduction to the Transaction Edition.
... rise . " 23 The forecasts of demographers in the 1930s that Western populations would soon decline were proved wrong by the baby boom following the Second World War , but in the 1990s downward population projections in many Western ...
... rise in wages tends to generate a taste for a higher level of living , which each worker will endeavor to preserve , among other ways , by reducing the size of his family . According to Marx , the principle of population was merely a ...
... rise in population size and density would intensify the division of labor , " leading to greater responsibilities of the state administration as it takes over more kinds of enterprise and converts them into public services . " 0 In ...
... , the first telegraph linked Paris and Lille ( 1794 ) , and the same year saw the establishment of the École Polytechnique , the world's first technical college . 1 Overlapping the development of new technology was the rise of 1: His Times.
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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 |