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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Kenneth Smith. BOOK ONE INTRODUCTORY This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER ONE THE ORIGINS OF. the means of subsistence,the history of every people that have BOOK I: INTRODUCTORY.
... means that the population cannot go on perpetually increasing without pressing on the limits of the means of subsistence, and that a check of some kind or other must, sooner or later, be opposed to it. This is the essence of the ...
... subsistence for man. Population,when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an ... means of subsistence, is a proposition so evident, that it needs no illustration. 'That population does invariably ...
Kenneth Smith. the means of subsistence,the history of every people that have ever existed will abundantly prove. 'And, that the superior power of population cannot be checked, without producing misery or vice,the ample portion of these ...
... means of subsistence, between the generative power of mankind and the nutritive power of the State—a stage which was only reached much later in England.3 Sir Walter Raleigh, in his Historie of the World, 1652, argued that population ...
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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 |