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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mayhew, Robert J. (Robert John), 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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