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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... natural force of sexual attraction tends to increase the population beyond the numbers that can be fed. Socialists of every denomination—not only Marx and Engels, but also, among others, Charles Hall, Robert Owen, Pierre Joseph Proudhon ...
... natural compounds; and after the inception of organic chemistry the distinction between animate and inanimate was never again so facile. There was an international upswell of mathematical genius. The work of Herschel and others marked ...
... natural rights” in a “natural order” with less and less reference to a personal deity. In this process no idea inherited from the past retained its legitimacy from tradition alone; each was tested in the new context and had to prove ...
... attempts to derive policy suggestions from what was common in their point of view. Underlying the moral thought of the Enlightenment, as of Christianity, was “natural law.” For Aquinas, writing the summa of 4 Malthus.
... natural law could hardly generate a moral code as clean-cut as Newtonian science, whose comfortable certainty spread ... natural law has often been more a psychological than a social theory, based not on suppositions about the functional ...
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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 |