Malthus: Founder of Modern DemographyTransaction Publishers - 302 sider Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), one of the most influential of modern thinkers, is also one of the most misunderstood. Malthus' Essay on Population is a work that everyone cites but typically without having read it. This book offers a comprehensive and accurate exposition of his thought, integrating his better-known theory on population with his somewhat neglected analysis of economic development and social structure. |
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... the original works , there is hardly a better route to a full and subtle understanding of Malthus than Hollander's exposition . It has become customary among a wide range of writers xii Introduction to the Transaction Edition.
Founder of Modern Demography. It has become customary among a wide range of writers to take Malthus and Marx as symbolic poles in a supposed spectrum of social policies concerning population and economic develop- ment . For example ...
... become a main focus of present - day demographers . If countries like India and China are outside the central Marxist schema ( or are returned to it by a contrived route — that is , expanding the meaning of " feudalism " in order to ...
... becoming routine among professionals and businessmen . The contrast may well have been the consequence also of the fact that socialism , the main antitraditionalist ideology of the working classes , opposed contraception either ...
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His Life and Work | 21 |
The Principle of Population | 38 |
Minor Quibbles and Gross Misunderstandings | 58 |
Economic Theory | 82 |
The Poor Law and Migration | 100 |
Population Growth | 135 |
Mortality | 156 |
Fertility | 180 |
The Malthusian Heritage | 218 |
Notes | 241 |
Works Cited | 259 |
Index | 291 |