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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... conclusion that £famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit ...
... conclusion that they are ca great Corrective of the Redundance and Increase of Mankind5 (p. 213). Famines have not been so serious of recent times owing to improvements in agriculture, the supplies obtainable from other countries by sea ...
... conclusion that, since this growth has probably persisted through all time, therefore mankind has not been eternal! 1 The similarity of this passage (and many others) to the views and even expressions of Malthus is remarkable. 2 Hale's ...
... conclusions. His argument with Wallace was no doubt part of the debate on the idea of progress. But Hume and Wallace were sailing the tributaries ; the controversy had not yet reached the main stream. Wallace's book, A ...
... , but nevertheless numbers are 1 Wallace must be regarded as having anticipated Malthus in the most important of his conclusions. directly affected by political maxims and institutions concerning land. Equal 20 THE ORIGINS OF THE THEORY.
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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
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