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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... death. She spent years traveling about England, visiting every place where he had lived or worked and every surviving descendant of Malthus's brother and sister-in-law (there were no direct descendants). Never in her life, she remarked ...
... death, the British Society for Population Studies organized a conference in Cambridge under the title “Forward from Malthus: The State of Population Theory in 1984. ”7 In 1985 a group of Italian demographers sponsored a conference ...
... death the dean of French demographers, titled one chapter in his principal work “Les pays sousdeveloppes: Marx ou Malthus ?'13 Or, as another instance, the distinguished French sociologist Raymond Aron wrote a stimulating article for ...
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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 |