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Malthus - Founder of Modern Demography (Hardcover)
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Malthus - Founder of Modern Demography (Hardcover)
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Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), one of the most influential of
modern thinkers, is also one of the most misunderstood. Malthus'
Essay on Population is a work that everyone cites but typically
without having read it. This book offers a comprehensive and
accurate exposition of his thought, integrating his better-known
theory on population with his somewhat neglected analysis of
economic development and social structure. In Petersen's Malthus
both the general reader and the social scientist are given a basis
for contrasting Malthus with competing theories. As a background to
his exposition, Petersen discusses the trends since Malthus' day in
fertility, mortality, and population growth. The book also has an
accessible comparison of Malthus' economics with that of his
contemporary, David Ricardo, as well as the links to the Keynesian
thought of recent time. Petersen also comments on Malthus' stand on
birth control, as well as on the rise of the neo-Malthusian
movement and its successor in today's less developed countries. The
review of both population trends and demographic theory over the
past century and a half gives the reader a base from which he can
judge in what respects Malthus did, or did not, forecast the future
accurately. As Petersen points out, Malthus also influenced the
evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, as well as its offshoot,
Social Darwinism. Malthus is an essential work not only for
demographers and economists but for anyone interested in
intellectual history. The late Robert Nisbet, in his review of the
book for the New Republic, called it "the best exposition of
Malthus to be found anywhere." < I>William Petersen, Robert
Lazarus Professor of Social Demography Emeritus at Ohio State
University, is known throughout the profession as a leading
demographer. He is also an elegant writer.
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