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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... issues in demography , at least implicit in many of the publications already cited , has been addressed directly in two interesting papers by , respectively , Jacqueline Beaujeu - Garnier and Jacques Silber . " As one important example ...
... issue of the bibliographic journal Population Index includes a reference to at least one work with the same theme.15 The most general statement of the argument is in the introduction to a collection of Marx and Engels's own writings on ...
... issue of what Oriental despotism implies for , among other questions , the population of their countries . *** There is a sizable Marxist literature on what is termed either " overproduction " or " underconsumption " —that is , the ...
... issues , but perhaps most clearly from his stand on the Irish question , where he stood almost alone against the opinion of every party or ... issue . NOTES 1. Patricia James , ed . , The Travel XX Introduction to the Transaction Edition.
... issues , gradually gave way to " political economy , " whose practitioners de- manded or defended " natural rights " in a " natural order " with less and less reference to a personal deity . In this process no idea inherited from the ...
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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 |