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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... Political Economy, following volumes interpreting Adam Smith, Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill. The author analyzes in conscientious detail both the whole of Malthus's corpus and much of the vast body of subsequent commentary, often coming ...
... Political Economy, 2nd ed. (London: William Pickering, 1836; reprinted, Clifton, N.J.: Kelley, 1974). James Bonar, Malthus and His Work., 2nd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1924). See also John Maynard Keynes, “Robert Malthus: The First of ...
... Political Quarterly, 19 (1966), 456-474. 21. Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884; New York: International Publishers, 1942). The book's argument is based largely on the work of the American ...
... unabated. The portion of the transformation that is omitted from a narrowly economic or political-economic view is the essence of what sociologists sometimes denote as the shift from gemeinschaft to gesellschaft or, 2 Malthus.
... political process. The secularization of social life, started several centuries earlier, was all but completed during Malthus's lifetime. “Moral philosophy,” essentially the direct application of Christian values to current issues ...
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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 |