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The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus.
Hollander investigates the relation of Malthusian economics to that of the other great classicists - particularly Smith, Ricardo, J.B. Say, and the French physiocrats. He redefines our common perception of Malthus's method and character.
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1997.
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| Colección: | Studies in comparative political economy and public policy.
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| 520 | |a Hollander investigates the relation of Malthusian economics to that of the other great classicists - particularly Smith, Ricardo, J.B. Say, and the French physiocrats. He redefines our common perception of Malthus's method and character. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I: Early explorations in growth and development theory -- 1 THE ESSAY ON POPULATION, 1798-1807 -- I: Introduction -- II: The 'geometrical' and 'arithmetical' ratios -- III: The critique of William Godwin -- IV: Application to the Poor Laws -- V: Diminishing returns and land scarcity-based growth theory -- VI: The downward wage path -- VII: The English case -- VIII: The distribution of activity between agriculture and manufacturing -- IX: The oscillatory process -- X: Diminishing returns and growth, 1803 -- XI: The 1806 defence -- XII: Food and population: The order of precedence and the oscillatory process, 1803, 1806/7 -- XIII: Summary and conclusion -- 2 THE MALTHUS-RICARDO CORRESPONDENCE, 1813-1814 -- I: Introduction -- II: Direct effect of agricultural productivity on profit rate denied: The stimulatory effect of agricultural protection -- III: Effect of agricultural productivity conceded and the 'temporary' effect of manufacturing prosperity -- IV: The profit-rate trend elaborated -- V: Concluding remarks -- 3 THE INQUIRY INTO RENT (1815) -- I: Introduction -- II: An agricultural-growth model and an extension -- III: On the rising real costs of marginal extensions: An alternative perspective -- IV: Two classes of stationary state -- V: The effect of exogenous increase in the corn price -- VI: Reactions by Ricardo -- VII: Summary and conclusion -- 4 THE MALTHUS-RICARDO CORRESPONDENCE, 1815-1819 -- I: Introduction -- II: Agricultural expansion and profit-rate increase -- III: An Evaluation of The Essay on Profits -- IV: On the advantages of a high corn price -- V: Restatement of objections to Ricardo's 'new view' -- VI: On the wage-profit relation -- VII: The source of the contrasting positions -- VIII: First reactions to Ricardo's Principles. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a IX: A summing-up on the trend paths of the factor returns -- 5 THE ESSAY ON POPULATION REVISED (1817) -- I: Introduction -- II: Checks to growth in 'agricultural', 'commercial', and 'mixed' systems -- III: Land scarcity, the factor returns, and prudential population control -- IV: Prudence endogenized -- V: Changes in ceteris paribus conditions -- VI: The response to Weyland: Implications for the growth model -- VII: Manufacturing expansion and population growth -- VIII: The order of precedence of food supply and population growth, and the 'oscillatory' process -- IX: Concluding notes: Some interpretive problems -- II: Value, distribution, and growth -- 6 PRICE THEORY -- I: Introduction -- II: On utility -- III: The theory of exchange -- IV: The theory of demand -- V: The limitations of demand-supply analysis -- VI: Cost-price analysis: General themes -- VII: The case against the labour theory: Time -- VIII: The case against the labour theory: Rent -- IX: Malthus and J.B. Say -- 7 VALUE MEASUREMENT -- I: Introduction -- II: Value measurement and general purchasing power -- III: On Ricardo's money measure of labour embodiment -- IV: A proposed linked corn-labour index -- V: Abandonment of quest for an index of purchasing power -- VI: Labour command as measure of absolute supply conditions -- VII: Measurement of supply conditions, 1823 -- VIII: Supply conditions and the profit rate -- IX: Supply conditions and the labour market -- X: The measure in a growth context -- XI: The Ricardo-Malthus exchange, 1823 -- XII: J.S. Mill on The Measure of Value -- XIII: The response to Samuel Bailey -- XIV: A summary formulation, 1827 -- XV: Summary and conclusion -- Appendix: 'Table illustrating the invariable Value of Labour and its Results' -- 8 SURPLUS VS SCARCITY: A PHYSIOCRATIC DIMENSION -- I: Introduction -- II: On 'surplus': The Essay on Population. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a III: On sectoral interdependence -- IV: Agriculture as sole source of surplus confirmed -- V: Surplus vs scarcity: The pamphlets of 1815 and the Principles -- VI: Ricardo's objections: The land-scarcity condition -- VII: Malthus and land scarcity: The response to Ricardo -- VIII: The growth context -- IX: The diminishing-returns complexity elaborated -- X: Malthus's 'debt' to the Physiocrats -- XI: Summary and conclusion: The disintegration of Malthusian physiocracy -- 9 WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT -- I: Introduction -- II: Labour supply: Wages and population growth -- III: Labour demand -- IV: Family earnings and full employment -- V: Summary and conclusion -- 10 PROFIT-RATE ANALYSIS -- I: Introduction -- II: The secular decline of the profit and wage rates -- III: The determining role of the agricultural profit rate: A 'corn profit' model -- IV: The corn-profit interpretation elaborated -- V: The manufacturing profit rate -- VI: The effect of real-wage fluctuations -- VII: The inverse wage-profit or 'proportionality' theorem -- VIII: Further evidence for the proportionality theorem -- IX: Further elaborations in The Measure of Value -- X: Objections to the law of markets -- XI: Summary and conclusion -- III: Employment, aggregate demand, and money -- 11 SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: ACCUMULATION AND THE AGGREGATE-DEMAND PROBLEM -- I: Introduction -- II: Productive and unproductive labour -- III: The problem of sustainable growth -- IV: On working-class consumption -- V: On the determinants of saving -- VI: The 'glut' controversy elaborated -- VII: The attack on Say's Law: A micro-economic rationale -- VIII: Trade and sustainable growth -- IX: On the efficiency gains from trade: a digression -- X: Trade: The measurement problem -- XI: On the endogeneity of financial means -- XII: Distribution of property and sustainable growth -- XIII: 'Unproductive' consumption. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a XIV: 'New inventions' and sustainable growth -- XV: On gross and net revenue -- XVI: Secular stagnation in a development context -- XVII: Summary and conclusion -- 12 MACRO-ECONOMIC STABILIZATION AND APPLICATIONS -- I: Introduction -- II: Analysis of the wartime expansion -- III: Analysis of the postwar depression -- IV: The policy problem defined: A weighing of options -- V: Government expenditure and finance -- VI: Summary and conclusion -- 13 MONEY AND BANKING -- I: Introduction -- II: The case for gold -- III: Meaning and extent of a depreciated' currency, 1797-1811 -- IV: Banking policy: Bank of England defence refuted -- V: Bullionism reinforced: A re-evaluation of changes in the value of bullion -- VI: Monetary policy -- VII: Summary and conclusion -- 14 TWO ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY ECONOMICS -- I: Introduction -- II: Malthus on remittances and the exchange rate: His initial statement -- III: Ricardo's response: The appendix to The High Price of Bullion -- IV: Further elaborations in correspondence -- V: The transfer problem: A summary -- VI: On the cost of obtaining the precious metals -- VII: Some empirical observations -- VIII: International prices: A summary -- IV: Some empirical estimates -- 15 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: PAST AND PROSPECTIVE -- I: Introduction -- II: Early formulations, 1798-1806 -- III: The diminishing-returns principle applied, 1813-1814 -- IV: Productivity estimates, 1815 -- V: Productivity estimates, 1817 -- VI: Empirical estimates in the Principles -- VII: Summary and conclusion -- 16 DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS: THE POPULATION PROBLEM -- I: Introduction -- II: Malthus on contemporary population growth, 1798 and 1803 -- III: Contemporary and prospective agricultural development: A summary -- IV: The population problem -- V: Postwar evaluations -- VI: More on prudence -- VII: Summary. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a V: Trade policy and social welfare -- 17 AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION -- I: Introduction -- II: Early opposition to 'commercial systems': 1803, 1806 -- III: The 'free trade' position in 1813-1814 -- IV: The case for protection, 1815: Aggregate activity, class distribution, and security -- V: The case for protection, 1815: A 'utilitarian' overview -- VI: 'Agricultural bias, ' 1815 -- VII: Balanced growth and protectionism, 1817 -- VIII: The case for intervention, 1820 -- IX: Malthus's new position: The evidence -- X: The rationale for the policy transition -- XI: Summary and conclusion -- Appendix A: Gainful labour force and labour participation ratios, Great Britain, 1780-1851 -- Appendix B: Digest of major Corn Laws -- Appendix C: Huskisson and others and the abandonment of agricultural protection -- 18 SOCIAL REFORM AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT -- I: Introduction -- II: Policy objectives: 'High' wages and population growth -- III: On Malthus's 'pessimism' -- IV: The first (1798) Essay: Prudence vs poverty -- V: The transition from 1798: The moral calculus elaborated -- VI: Prologue to the theory of economic policy: The Principles -- VII: Labour policy and social control -- VIII: Income distribution -- IX: Conclusion -- 19 UTILITARIANISM IN A THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- I: Introduction -- II: The theological chapters of the first Essay -- III: A utility calculus, 1798 -- IV: Moral restraint and utilitarianism -- V: Prudential control and utilitarianism -- VI: More on the desirability of population expansion -- VII: Summary and conclusion -- CONCLUSION -- I: Introduction -- II: Malthus's positive case for deductive theory and his practice -- III: The formal critique of Ricardian theory -- IV: Methodological objections to Adam Smith -- V: On verification, prediction, and disturbing causes: The uses of economic theory. | |
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