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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... doubled its population in approximately forty years. In estimating the rate at which the population of the whole country doubles he has more difficulty. There are good observations which work out at a doubling in about 1,200 years ...
Kenneth Smith. Petty thus arrives at possible doubling periods ranging from ten years to twelve hundred, but resolves the difficulty by striking a kind of average which results in a figure o f' 360 Years for the time of doubling ...
... doubling, suppose but once in twenty-five years, will, in another century, be more than the people of England, and the greatest number of Englishmen will be on this side the water. ... In fine, a nation well regulated is like a polypus ...
... doubling could occur in eighty-three to eighty-four years,1 and since in all Prussian states this is the normal rate, the population of the next hundred years is predictable in the absence of a major war. Doubling could be speeded up by ...
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Περιεχόμενα
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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 |