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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... relation between Malthus and Marx is still pertinent.17 How have major Marxists viewed population , both in itself and in relation to economic growth ? A review of this question , how- ever , cannot have much substance , for in the ...
... relation , given its designation by the German social- ist Ferdinand Lassalle , was analyzed most fully by Malthus's ... relations . On the contrary , he asserted , " every spe- cial historical mode of production has its own special laws ...
... relation to the rapidity of population growth .... Over the last four centuries , the population factor has been extremely favorable to rapid and uninhibited expansion of capitalism , . . . a most important factor in counteracting the ...
... relations among the world's nations . In fact , the hyperproductivity of capitalism has resulted — despite any disad- vantages of the system — in a remarkably enhanced general wel- fare in return for far fewer hours of work . If ...
... Relationship between Population and the Means of Subsis- tence , " in the journal Renkou Yanjiu . 16. Ronald L. Meek , ed . , Marx and Engels on Malthus : Selections from the Writings of Marx and Engels Dealing with the Theories of ...
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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 |