The Malthusian ControversyRoutledge, 5 Νοε 2013 - 368 σελίδες This book, first published in 1951, focuses on the hitherto ignored contemporary critics of Malthus, giving them the attention they so rightly deserve. Dr Smith traces the Malthusian controversy step by step, from 1798, the date of the First Essay, to the death of Malthus in 1834. Investigating the precursors of Malthus and the genesis of the Malthusian Theory of Population, the book subjects the theory to a searching analysis in the light of not only contemporary criticism, but also subsequent developments and modern ideas. In addition, the book examines the application of the theory to the doctrine of perfectibility, to wages, to the poor laws, to emigration, and to the birth control movement. Fully annotated and written in an easy style, this work is indispensable to serious students of both population problems and the development of economic thought. Broad in scope, The Malthusian Controversy presents a new perspective on the most urgent of modern issues, the problem of world population. |
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... appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society'. (p. 16). 'Consequently,if the premises are just, the argument is conclusive against the perfectibility of the mass of mankind,(p. 17). The period during which ...
... appear to depend upon chance, the excess of the male over the female births and the approximate numerical equality of the sexes, the high rate of mortality in the early years of life, and the excess of the urban over the rural death ...
... appears to be wrong. If a woman rears only two children to maturity the phenomena are those of a stationary population. Like Cain, the children appear to have got their wives from the land of Nod. He appeals to experience and ...
... appears to be a general average. He makes several calculations of population growth and shows doublings in different periods, including one as low as 10^ years,2 at the same time denying that such a general fertility is universally ...
... appear to be due to the destruction of the surplus through lack of food (pp. 18-19). Man would be similarly limited if he did not cultivate the land, and, even then, his power of increase exceeds what is required. 'The generative ...
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTROVERSY | 45 |
CRITICAL ANALYSIS | 207 |
THE APPLICATION OF
THE THEORY | 273 |
Conclusion
| 324 |
Bibliography
| 335 |
Subject Index
| 341 |