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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... wrote a new biography.2 Remarkably, the onlyother significant prior works about him were those by Malthus's friend William Otter (1836) and byjames Bonar (1924, in a second edition) .3 As Mrs. James told me, it was stupendously ...
... wrote a stimulating article for the general public titled “Asia—Between Malthus and Marx.”14 Virtually every issue of the bibliographic journal Population Index includes a reference to at least one work with the same theme.15 The most ...
... wrote, brought not only unemployment but also “want, wretchedness, and crime.” In industrial areas there was a “gigantic expansion” of population for the reasons given in Malthus's principle of population, which had “a good deal of ...
... wrote], then I can not abolish this [iron law of wages] even if I abolish wage labor a hundred times, because this law is paramount not only over the system of wage labor but also over every social system. Stepping straight from this ...
... wrote repeatedly in both the Essay and Principles, a rise in wages tends to generate a taste for a higher level of living, which each worker will endeavor to preserve, among other ways, by reducing the size of his family. According to ...
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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 |