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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... 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 Bonar ( 1924 , in a second edition ) . As Mrs. James told me , it was stupendously ...
... wrote a stimulating article for the general public titled " Asia — Between Malthus and Marx . " 14 Virtually every issue of the bibliographic journal Population Index includes a reference to at least one work with the same theme.15 The ...
... wrote , brought not only unemployment but also " want , wretchedness , and crime . " In industrial areas there was a " gigantic expansion " of population for the reasons given in Malthus's principle of population , which had " a good ...
... wrote ] , then I can not abolish this [ iron law of wages ] even if I abolish wage labor a hundred times , because this law is paramount not only over the system of wage labor but also over every social system . Stepping straight from ...
... wrote repeatedly in both the Essay and Principles , a rise in wages tends to generate a taste for a higher level of living , which each worker will endeavor to preserve , among other ways , by reducing the size of his family . According ...
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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 |