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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... Population Studies organized a conference in Cambridge un- der the title " Forward from Malthus : The State of Population Theory in 1984. " In 1985 a group of Italian demographers spon- sored a conference concerning the importance of ...
... population and economic develop- ment . For example , Alfred Sauvy , who was until his death the dean of French demographers , titled one chapter in his princi- pal work " Les pays sousdeveloppes : Marx on Malthus ? Or , as an- other ...
... population for the reasons given in Malthus's principle of population , which had " a good deal of truth in it under existing circumstances " ! Indeed , " the whole of the economy was affected by this expansion " in the number of people ...
... populations would soon decline were proved wrong by the baby boom following the Second World War , but in the 1990s downward population projections in many Western nations have again provoked the same concern . If the number of people ...
... population always to increase up to the limit set by the subsistence available to it . Thus , in a capitalist society supposedly a virtually unlimited supply of labor can always be hired at a more or less fixed low wage . The relation ...
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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 |