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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... marry or generate, except they know meanes to live; (As it is almost every where at this day, except Tartary) there is no Danger of Inundations of People: But when there be great Shoales of People which go on to populate, without ...
... marry, and earlier in life5 (p. 165). Luxury delays marriage in cities, where deaths exceed births, and the case is similar in fully-settled countries, where the competition of landless labourers brings about low wages, difficulty in ...
... marry, and to rear families, which supplied the place of those who had perished. And for a like reason, every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people ...
... marry' (p. 15). Climates and soils make a great difference, independently of the best culture or constitutions, but nevertheless numbers are 1 Wallace must be regarded as having anticipated Malthus in the most important of his ...
... marry, and marriages are common among the lower orders, but £as in order to reap, it is not sufficient to plough and sow, so in order to bring up children it is not sufficient to marry.5 Consequently, since numbers must always 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 |