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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Malthus"”.
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Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995
… techniques of the population formation as Malthus prepares to travel to the twenty-first century."
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Money in the theory of economic growth: an analysis of comparative-dynamic and optimality aspects of growth equilibrium
… the primary concern of the great economist like Malthus, Marx, Schumpeter, and Keynes. Modern growth theory is built upon the foundations laid by these great masters.</p>
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The Introduction and Operation of the New Poor Law in Suffolk 1834-70
… population growth, such as those popularised by Malthus, as well as those of Utilitarians and Noetics, all coalescing to bring about the change of 1834. It compares the situation in Suffolk with that in the rest of the country, looking specifically at the Houses of Industry and their adaptability …
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Darwin in context: the London years, 1837-1842
… and the nature of the contribution made to it by Malthus. The esteem in which they were held, notwithstanding their intellectual radicalism, explains how Darwin was able to find in their company the self-confidence to develop his iconoclastic conclusions. His identification with them, and their …
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Land Matters : Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange, and Appropriation of Ecological Space
… time since the end of the 18th century when Malthus forecasted a contradiction between population growth and agricultural output. That constraint on economic growth, imposed by limited land areas, was overcome by the combination of fossil fuels (coal, oil) and appropriation of space overseas …
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Fertility And Economic Growth
… between fertility and wage rates: while Malthus and others predict a positive relation, Barro and Becker find a negative relation. With education, the positive relation between fertility and wage rates can no longer exist. An education subsidy may reduce or may increase fertility if …
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The Malthusian Paradox: weapons rhetoric before the bomb
The Malthusian Paradox: Weapons Rhetoric Before the Bomb is a longitudinal case study of weapons rhetoric leading up to WWII. It examines how influential weapons rhetors negotiated a technological conundrum that I call the “Malthusian Paradox.” The Malthusian Paradox is the commonplace belief that …
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Dissension within the English classical school: an integration of the thought of William F Lloyd
… major figures of the period, i.e. Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, and J.S. Mill, there is also a considerable amount of material devoted to the works of a less influential group which includes James Mill, DeQuincy, Mcculloch, and Senior. By now the role of all these figures is fairly well …
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Poverty, savings banks and the development of self-help, c. 1775-1834
… of the thought of writers such as Thomas Robert Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, Patrick Colquhoun, David Davies, Frederick Morton Eden, Edmund Burke, etc., it is shown that this newer conception of natural law, encompassing a less interventionist and more macroeconomic approach (involving the deployment …
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Romantic-Era Periodicals and the Rise of Population
… debate occasioned by the publication of T. R. Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) and the rise of the periodical press in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. My goal for this study is to demonstrate how an examination of the historical population debate as it was …
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The early modern demographic dynamic : celibates and celibacy in seventeenth-century England
… was first articulated in the writings of Thomas Malthus at the very end of the eighteenth century, had entered into the history of population change in the nineteenth century and succeeded in capturing the academic high ground. Thus for many years shifts in mortality, largely as a result of …