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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... Population—A Letter to Malthus —Further Correspondence. VII. Michael Thomas Sadler Attack on the Ratios—Discussion of the Checks— The American Increase— The Law of Population. VIII. Thomas Rowe Edmonds and W. F. Lloyd The Views of ...
... population is indefinitely 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 ...
... population cannot be checked, without producing misery or vice,the ample portion of these too bitter ingredients in ... increase of food approaches to the yearly increase of an unrestricted population' (P-I37)._ Thus he arrives at the ...
... population, and, although he favoured an increasing population, he advocated ... Increase of Mankind', Peopling of Countries, &c., 1751 (McCulloch's Reprint ... population exceeded the means of subsistence. 9 SOME EARLY VIEWS—RALEIGH AND BACON.
... growth of population in the 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 ...
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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 |