Malthus: Founder of Modern DemographyRoutledge, 16. jan. 2018 - 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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... American economist Paul Sweezy. From a distantly related passage in Marx's Theorien über den Mehrwert, Sweezy wrote, a “general principle may be deduced”: The strength of the tendency to underconsumption stands in inverse relation to ...
... American Historical Review, 90 (1985), 837-865. 19. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (1845-46), edited by C. J. Arthur (New York: International Publishers, 1970), pp. 42-43; emphasis in the original. 20. See Lewis S ...
... American colonists, was to provide at cheap prices commodities not available at home. In the ordinary view, migration was still seen as the shipment under state auspices of persons from where they were redundant to where they would be ...
... American colonies. Many in France, notably Voltaire, admired England for its liberality, so different from the ... America's founding fathers was more consistent, because except in 6 Malthus.
Founder of Modern Demography William Petersen. trine of America's founding fathers was more consistent, because except ... American sociologist Robert Merton achieved a modest fame for a paper proclaiming that there can be “unanticipated ...
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2 His Life and Work | 21 |
3 The Principle of Population | 38 |
4 Minor Quibbles and Gross Misunderstandings | 58 |
5 Economic Theory | 82 |
6 The Poor Law and Migration | 100 |
7 Population Growth | 135 |
8 Mortality | 156 |
9 Fertility | 180 |
10 The Malthusian Heritage | 218 |
Notes | 241 |
Works Cited | 259 |
Index | 291 |