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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... 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 Index 291 259 Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group http://taylorandfrancis ...
... Theory in 1984. ”7 In 1985 a group of Italian demographers sponsored a conference concerning the importance of religion in Malthus's theorizing.8 In none of these conferences do we find a stale rehash of old disputes, but rather a ...
... theory. When today's remaining Marxists try to use past works as a foundation for their writings, they are seriously hampered by their ideological forefathers* long indifference to demography in all its aspects. According to Malthus's ...
... theory of population was a “history” of human progress from its beginnings. Working from notes that Marx had left when he died, Engels wrote The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884), which in some respects was a ...
... theory as valid), then there would be no “industrial reserve army,” no “immiseration,” no Marxist model at all. In short, Marx built his system on the unstated and unexamined postulate that the rapid population growth in nineteenth ...
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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 |