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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... supply and , therefore , wages may 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 ...
... supply of labor can always be hired at a more or 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 ...
... supply . Dogmatic speculation about whether the popu- lation was growing or decreasing gave way to census enumera- tions , which eventually facilitated the start of epidemiology . Each voyage of Captain Cook brought back not only news ...
... increase its supply of gold , taxes , people , colonies . With no sentimental ambiguity , the function of the mass of the population was to contribute their work , paid for optimally at the level of subsistence , and 3 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 |