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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... greater effi- ciency were , in fact , a higher level of living , a shorter workweek , and the development of service industries . Even if Marx's main point in this context is granted — that with increasing mechanization there is a trend ...
... greater responsibilities of the state administration as it takes over more kinds of enterprise and converts them into public services . " 0 In other words , population increase would reinforce the trend to- ward socialism . In Rosa ...
... greater religious or cultural traditional- ism of the lower classes , whose members thus were more reluc- tant to adopt any of the contraceptive means becoming routine among professionals and businessmen . The contrast may well have ...
... greater democratization of the political process . The secularization of social life , started several centuries earlier , was all but completed during Mar. thus's lifetime . " Moral philosophy , " essentially the direct application of ...
... greater glory of France or England or whatever . Specific institutions persisted long after any change in the- ory . The East India Company , in whose college Malthus taught for most of his life , typified the curious public - private ...
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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 |