The Malthusian Controversy
The Malthusian Controversy

Author: Kenneth Smith

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780415378055

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First published in 1951, this book critically examines the Malthusian Theory of Population. Focusing on the hitherto ignored critics of Malthus it presents a new perspective on the most urgent of modern issues, the problem of world population.

The Malthusian Controversy
The Malthusian Controversy

Author: Kenneth Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 113658482X

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This book, first published in 1951, focuses on the hitherto ignored contemporary critics of Malthus, giving them the attention they so rightly deserve. Dr Smith traces the Malthusian controversy step by step, from 1798, the date of the First Essay, to the death of Malthus in 1834. Investigating the precursors of Malthus and the genesis of the Malthusian Theory of Population, the book subjects the theory to a searching analysis in the light of not only contemporary criticism, but also subsequent developments and modern ideas. In addition, the book examines the application of the theory to the doctrine of perfectibility, to wages, to the poor laws, to emigration, and to the birth control movement. Fully annotated and written in an easy style, this work is indispensable to serious students of both population problems and the development of economic thought. Broad in scope, The Malthusian Controversy presents a new perspective on the most urgent of modern issues, the problem of world population.

The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

Author: Alison Bashford

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0691177910

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This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas.

Malthus, Medicine, & Morality
Malthus, Medicine, & Morality

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9004333339

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Thomas Robert Malthus's reputation has lately been rehabilitated in the fields of social biology, demography, environmentalism, and economics. In the midst of this current interest and with the chance to mark the occasion of the bicentenary of the first edition of the Essay on Population (1798), the contributors to this volume take this timely opportunity to examine the historical conditions in which Malthus constructed his theory, and in which the concept of a ‘Malthusian' and ‘Neo-Malthusian' philosophy first emerged. The essays redress the balance between Malthus's original argument, the immediate responses to Malthus by medics and theologians in Britain and on the Continent, and some of the ways that his ideas were later attacked, appropriated, or misrepresented. Included here are essays that not only re-evaluate the development of Malthus's theory, but also offer critical perspectives on the generation of the ‘Malthusian league' and debates about birth control in Britain and on the Continent, and Malthus's influence on the emergence of social science and Darwinian evolutionary biology.

An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population

Author: T. R. Malthus

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Essay on the Principle of Population" by T. R. Malthus. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.