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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... thought— the collected works of Malthus were not published shortly after his death . Perhaps the clearest symptom of the recognition now given him is that this gap has been filled with a 1986 edition in eight volumes . Before that ...
... social system . Stepping straight from this , the economists [ that is , the school of thought usually identified today as Physiocrats ] proved fifty years ago or more that socialism 20 Introduction to the Transaction Edition.
... thought is as simple as it is often — one might even say typically — pictured ; he does not fit easily anywhere along the reactionary - progressive spectrum . He tried to analyze English— and , eventually , all human — societies ...
... Thought and Population Theory by Alena Subrtova , in Czech , included two chapters contrasting the theses of Malthus and Marx . Stefan Jaggi wrote a paper in German , " Marx and the Malthusian Population Theory " in the Schweizerische ...
... thought known as the " philosophes . " The French writers , however , differed among themselves on every significant point . Cutting across such divergencies and therefore oversimplifying to some degree , one can define 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 |