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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... reviewer remarked, she looked under not only every stone but also virtually every grain of sand. For the first time, due to her impressive efforts, we have as full an account of Malthus's life and personality as is possible. ix ...
... review of the set,101 was repeatedly struck by how impressive a range of current demographic thinking had its origin in the writings of this one man. The contention that Malthus's writings are pertinent in judging current issues in ...
... review of this question, however, cannot have much substance, for in the usually tangential treatment first by Marx and Engels and then by their immediate followers, population was generally pictured less as a significant component of ...
... Review, 13 (June, 1987), 343-348. 11. Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier, “Malthus avait-il raisoni ”Espace, Populations, Sociétés, no. 3 (1989), 305-315. Jacques Silber, “Malthus' Preconditions to Moral Restraint and Modern Population ...
... Review, 1: 2 (1957), 21-32. 18. Frederick Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), edited by W. O. Henderson and W. H. Chaloner (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1958), pp. 92-191. See also J. M. ...
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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 |