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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... relation between Malthus and Marx is still pertinent.17 How have major Marxists viewed population, both in itself and in relation to economic growth? A review of this question, however, cannot have much substance, for in the usually ...
... relation, given its designation by the German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle, was analyzed most fully by Malthus's ... relations. On the contrary, he asserted, “every special historical mode of production has its own special laws of ...
... relation to the rapidity of population growth.... Over the last four centuries, the population factor has been extremely favorable to rapid and uninhibited expansion of capitalism,... a most important factor in counteracting the ...
... relations among the world's nations. In fact, the hyperproductivity of capitalism has resulted—despite any disadvantages of the system—in a remarkably enhanced general welfare in return for far fewer hours of work. If underconsumption ...
... Relationship between Population and the Means of Subsistence,” in the journal Renkou Yanjiu. 16. Ronald L. Meek, ed., Marx and Engels on Malthus: Selections from the Writings of Marx and Engels Dealing with the Theories of Thomas Robert ...
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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 |