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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... earth to produce subsistence for man. Population,when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in ...
... earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction ...
... earth.53 Francis Bacon, Raleigh's contemporary, had also definite ideas on the subject of population, and, although he favoured an increasing population, he advocated certain conditions and precautions.c Generally, it is to be foreseene ...
... earth would increase within 2,000 years so as to give cone Head for every two Acres of land in the Habitable part of the Earth. And then, according to the Prediction of the Scriptures, there must be Wars and great Slaughter. '2 Turning ...
... earth. His object being to prove that mankind had a beginning, he proposes the following inquiries: 61. Whether according to the ordinary course and procedure of Nature in the Generations of Mankind, there be not a gradual and ...
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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 |