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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... society, with great pleasure. . . . But I see great, and, to my understanding, unconquerable difficulties in the way to them.'1 These difficulties were embodied in the principle of population. The doctrine, in its unqualified form, is ...
... society'. (p. 16). 'Consequently,if the premises are just, the argument is conclusive against the perfectibility of the mass of mankind,(p. 17). The period during which population might double itself is deduced from American experience ...
... society and a high infant mortality. £ The happiness of a country does not depend, absolutely, upon its poverty, or its riches, upon its youth, or its age, upon its being thinly,or fully inhabited, but upon the rapidity with which it is ...
... society would be wrecked by the increase of its own numbers without a corresponding increase of food. The institutions of marriage and property would have to be restored, the world would be divided among the living, and fresh children ...
... society had again acquired their former number. The lands which were cultivated, the houses built, the commodities raised, the riches acquired, enabled the people, who escaped, immediately to marry, and to rear families, which supplied ...
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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 |