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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... is a proposition so evident, that it needs no illustration. 'That population does invariably increase, where there are 1 Essajif 1798 edn., p. 11. turbid the whole stream of human life5 (p. 177). The 5 THE FIRST ESSAY.
Kenneth Smith. turbid the whole stream of human life5 (p. 177). The perfect 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 ...
... whole orchards.5 If Edward III had succeeded in conquering France, it could have been peopled with English without noticeably 1 Quarterly Review, April, 1831, p. 99. 2 Nitti, Population and the Social System, p. 6. 3 See Nitti, op. cit ...
... whole country doubles he has more difficulty. There are good observations which work out at a doubling in about 1,200 years; other good observations show an increase ten times as great. There is also a third ' Natural possibility. '3 ...
... whole Nation).51 Even at this rate of doubling the 320 millions then on the earth would increase within 2,000 years so as to give cone Head for every two Acres of land in the Habitable part of the Earth. And then, according to the ...
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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 |