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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... example, everyone in the discipline is acquainted with the theory linking upward social mobility with smaller families, and most would trace it to Depopulation et civilisationby Arséne Dumont, published in 1890. But almost a century ...
... example, in one passage of the 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 ...
... example, Alfred Sauvy, who was until his 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 ...
... examples of it into Western “feudalism.”29 Thus, if Marx can be said to have had a theory of population, it omitted those portions of the globe that have become a main focus of present-day demographers. If countries like India and China ...
... Examples chosen almost at random suggest the international range of such works: Parviz Khalatbari, an Iranian-born East German demographer, published a paper in German, 'The Significance of the Historical Perspective for the Development ...
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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 |