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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... late Patricia James, who had edited Malthus's travel diaries,1 subsequendy wrote a new biography.2 Remarkably, the onlyother significant prior works about him were those by Malthus's friend William Otter (1836) and byjames Bonar (1924 ...
... later, however, Pergamon Press published a noteworthy catalog of these same books, together with informative essays by several knowledgeable persons.4 The contrast between my experience and this subsequent volume suggests the ...
... later, to mark the 150th anniversary of Malthus's 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 ...
... later Marxist writings. The advent of the machine, he wrote, brought not only unemployment but also “want, wretchedness, and crime.” In industrial areas there was a “gigantic expansion” of population for the reasons given in Malthus's ...
... later adopted by some Soviet spokesmen. For Marx, however, a human species able to evade its biological restrictions is a strange concept. Summing up the essentials of his comrade's work at his graveside, Engels held that, “Marx ...
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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 |