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The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus /
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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, 1803XI: 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
- 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 modelVII: 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