Economic, Social and Demographic Thought in the XIXth Century The Population Debate from Malthus to Marx /

• Main Author: Charbit, Yves. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Humanities.; Population.; Economics > Methodology.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Demography.; Social Sciences, general.; Population Economics.; Interdisciplinary Studies.; Methodology and the History of Economic Thought.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9960-1

According to current understanding, Malthus was hostile to an excess of population because it caused social sufferings, while Marx was favourable to demographic growth in so far as a large proletariat was a factor aggravating the contradictions of capitalism. This is unfortunately an oversimplificat...

Table of Contents:

• 1: The population controversy and beyond
• 2: Population, Economic Growth and Religion Malthus as a populationist
• 3: From Malthusianism to populationism The French liberal economists (1840-1870)
• 4: The Malthusian Trap The failure of Proudhon
• 5: Capitalism and Population Marx and Engels against Malthus
• 6: Beneath demographic issues
• Bibliography
• General Index.