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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... greater than the power in the 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 ...
... greater demonstration of the increase of mankind ethan a hundred notional arguments5 (p. 206). Hence it is clear that mankind does and must necessarily increase. What then are the correctives to this multiplication? The natural increase ...
... greater number of inhabitants, cMeris paribus, in proportion to the plenty of provisions it affords,as plenty will always encourage the generality of the people to marry' (p. 15). Climates and soils make a great difference ...
... greater in modern than in ancient times. Three writers, Dr. Richard Price, Rev. John Howlett, and William Wales, now turned their attention to the question whether the population of England and Wales had increased or decreased since the ...
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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 |