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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... produce their 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 ...
... production has its own special laws of population, historically valid within its limits alone.”25 By contrasting humans and all other species, Marx was seemingly claiming that man can transgress all biological limitations—a utopian ...
... production.”27 Marx examined this fifth class of societies mainly in his articles on India, but for him and Engels China, Russia, and some other countries were also included in it. The distinctive attribute of Oriental despotism is that ...
... produce more than can be bought with the incomes available. It is remarkable how little in this body of writings pertains to an increase in population—which mitigates the effects of underconsumption at least until the children are old ...
... production of commodities so much that marketing the goods has become as important an element of capitalism as manufacture itself. International trade is competitive by definition, but the simplistic notion that “capitalism” equals ...
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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 |