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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... principle; it 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 ...
... principle of population as understood by Malthus?55 or “What is the Malthusian theory of population? 55 5 2 However that may be, the message of the Essay of 1798 was clear enough. It startled the attention of Godwin and his followers ...
... principle of population is becoming more particular, clearer and more certain. THE HUME-WALLACE CONTROVERSY At about the same time Hume and Wallace were engaged in a controversy as to the relative populousness of modern and ancient ...
... population cannot grow indefinitely, as the earth can only feed a certain ... principle that men will multiply on the earth.1 If there were no ... THEORY Süssmilch: Die Göttliche Ordnung.
... population. He regarded luxury as undesirable, and quantity of people as of ... Principles of Political Economy, 1767.2 Animals multiply in proportion to ... Theories of Population from Raleigh to Arthur Young, Chapter V. 2 Malthus writes ...
Περιεχόμενα
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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 |