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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... late Patricia James , who had edited Malthus's travel diaries , 1 subse- quently wrote a new biography.2 Remarkably , the only other significant prior works about him were those by Malthus's friend William Otter ( 1836 ) and by James ...
... later , how- ever , Pergamon Press published a noteworthy catalog of these same books , together with informative essays by several knowl- edgeable persons . The contrast between my experience and this subsequent volume suggests the ...
... later , to mark the 150th anniversary of Malthus's death , the British Society for Population Studies organized a conference in Cambridge un- der the title " Forward from Malthus : The State of Population Theory in 1984. " In 1985 a ...
... Engels wrote , The Condition of the Working Class in England ( 1845 ) , where the treatment of population is in sharp contrast to that in virtually all later Marxist writings . xiii Introduction to the Transaction Edition.
Founder of Modern Demography. contrast to that in virtually all later Marxist writings . The advent of the machine , he wrote , brought not only unemployment but also " want , wretchedness , and crime . " In industrial areas there was a ...
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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 |