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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... Essay on the Principle of Population (hereafter referred to as the Essay), some in “delightful seventeenth-century Latin,” some “leather-bound books with the long s.” As one reviewer remarked, she looked under not only every stone but ...
... essays by several knowledgeable persons.4 The contrast between my experience and this subsequent volume suggests the ... Essay. The care with which the documents are to be preserved, the meticulous editing of the manuscript, reflect less ...
... Essay on the Principle of Population and Principles of Political Economy, his two main books. The editors of this complete set sought not pedantic authenticity but the maximum utility for the modern reader, and they accomplished their ...
... Essay Malthus remarked, almost incidentally, that population growth in a country with private property is curtailed by much more than a limited availability of land and the food grown on it. “In other words,” as E. A. Wrigley commented ...
... 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 to Marx, the principle of ...
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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 |