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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... tion growth enough to help raise individuals ' welfare . This is a very interesting idea . Present - day efforts to cut the fertility of less developed countries , one should note , have seldom if ever included the suggestion that the ...
... tion — not only Marx and Engels , but also , among others , Charles Hall , Robert Owen , Pierre Joseph Proudhon , Charles Fourier— all but unanimously repudiated an assertion that nature could be so cruel . The major exception to this ...
... tion of human history . According to the economic theory spelled out in Marx's Capi- tal , competition under capitalism drives all entrepreneurs to in- crease their efficiency to the utmost by installing more and more machinery . The ...
... tion and extracted the " surplus " created , respectively , by slaves , serfs , and industrial workers . Marx ridiculed antagonists who avoided such a social - class analysis , but he himself pointedly re- frained from identifying the ...
... tion of Capital , she rejected on another basis the supposition that more consumers would solve the capitalist dilemma of underconsumption ; for , in accordance with Marx's schema , any increase in the number of persons would mean ...
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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 |