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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... rate of mortality in the early years of life, and the excess of the urban over the rural death rate.2 Graunt's influence on subsequent writers is sufficiently obvious. His great contemporary, Sir William Petty, lies even closer to our ...
... deaths. Taking the procreative period at twenty years, it is possible for twenty children to be born of one woman,but the average may be taken at less than a third, say six. Owing to the high death rate in early years, he assumes that ...
... death rates, and, if fertility does not diminish, then the death rate will rise. However, mankind being what it is, numbers are sure to be kept down by strife and bloodshed. He concludes these observations by reflecting on the divine ...
... death rate pointed to an increase in healthiness, and finally concluded that the numbers in London compared with those of the Revolution as 10 to 9 nearly (p. 68). Enclosures had increased employment, particularly if they were of waste ...
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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 |