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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... labor , a characteristic legal system , and so on , functioned in a way which closely paralleled the West European marriage system " —which had long restricted popula- tion growth enough to help raise individuals ' welfare . This is a ...
... labor a hundred times , because this law is paramount not only over the system of wage labor but also over every social system . Stepping straight from this , the economists [ that is , the school of thought usually identified today as ...
... labor can always be hired at a more or less fixed low wage . The relation , given its designation by the German social- ist Ferdinand Lassalle , was analyzed most fully by Malthus's con- temporary , David Ricardo . For him , as for Marx ...
... labor , " leading to 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 ...
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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 |