Malthus : the life and legacies of an untimely prophet /

Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to overstep the limits of natural resources in "perpetual oscillation between happ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mayhew, Robert J. (Robert John), 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Malthus, T. R. > (Thomas Robert), > 1766-1834.
Malthus, T. R. > (Thomas Robert), > 1766-1834
Demographers > Great Britain > Biography.
Economists > Great Britain > Biography.
Démographes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Économistes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Demographers
Economists
Demographie
Great Britain
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: opening the door on Malthus's roller coaster
  • Before Malthus
  • Prophets of perfection: a revolutionary triptych
  • Malthus's Essay and the quiet revolution of 1798
  • Malthus as the malign muse of romanticism
  • Malthus and the making of environmental economics
  • Malthus and the Victorians
  • Malthus and the dismal age
  • Malthus the transatlantic celebrity
  • Malthus today
  • Epilogue: high time for the untimely prophet.

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