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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... means of mitigating or avoiding altogether the crunch of too many people. As another example, in one passage of the Essay Malthus remarked, almost incidentally, that population growth in a country with private property is curtailed by ...
... means of subsistence,. .. [by which they are] indirectly producing their actual material life.... This production only makes its appearance with the increase of population.”19 The last important element in a Marxist theory of population ...
... means the tendency of population always to increase up to the limit set by the subsistence available to it. Thus, in a capitalist society supposedly a virtually unlimited supply of labor can always be hired at a more or less fixed low ...
... means of production and extracted the “surplus” created, respectively, by slaves, serfs, and industrial workers. Marx ridiculed antagonists who avoided such a social-class analysis, but he himself pointedly refrained from identifying ...
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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 |