The Legacy Of Malthus

Author : Allan Chase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : UCSC:32106013188567

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The Legacy of Malthus by Allan Chase Pdf

Author : Robert J. Mayhew
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674419414

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Malthus by Robert J. Mayhew Pdf

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 happiness and misery,” he found himself attacked on all sides—by Romantic poets, utopian thinkers, and the religious establishment. Though Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. This book is at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment. Against the ferment of Enlightenment ideals about the perfectibility of mankind and the grim realities of life in the eighteenth century, Robert Mayhew explains the genesis of the Essay and Malthus’s preoccupation with birth and death rates. He traces Malthus’s collision course with the Lake poets, his important revisions to the Essay, and composition of his other great work, Principles of Political Economy. Mayhew suggests we see the author in his later writings as an environmental economist for his persistent concern with natural resources, land, and the conditions of their use. Mayhew then pursues Malthus’s many afterlives in the Victorian world and beyond. Today, the Malthusian dilemma makes itself felt once again, as demography and climate change come together on the same environmental agenda. By opening a new door onto Malthus’s arguments and their transmission to the present day, Robert Mayhew gives historical depth to our current planetary concerns.

Author : Giorgos Kallis
Publisher : Stanford Briefs
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1503611558

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Limits by Giorgos Kallis Pdf

Author : Daniel Philip Todes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biology
ISBN : 9780195058307

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Darwin Without Malthus by Daniel Philip Todes Pdf

The first book in English to examine in detail the scientific work of 19th-century Russian evolutionists, and the first in any language to explore the relationship of their theories to their economic, political, and natural milieu.

Author : Robert J. Mayhew
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295749914

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Debating Malthus by Robert J. Mayhew Pdf

For centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, and the natural environment from early contexts in the sixteenth century through to the present day. Edited and introduced by Robert J. Mayhew, a noted biographer of Thomas Robert Malthus—whose Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), excerpted here, is an influential and controversial take on the topic—this volume explores themes including evolution, eugenics, war, social justice, birth control, environmental Armageddon, and climate change. Other responses to the idea of new "population bombs" are represented here by radical feminist work, by Indigenous views of the population-environment nexus, and by intersectional race-gender approaches. By learning the patterns of this discourse, students will be better able to critically evaluate historical conversations and contemporary debates.

Author : Marina Fischer-Kowalski,Anette Reenberg,Anke Schaffartzik,Andreas Mayer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401786782

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Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability by Marina Fischer-Kowalski,Anette Reenberg,Anke Schaffartzik,Andreas Mayer Pdf

Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach to development and sustainability.

Author : James Z. Lee,Wang Feng
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0674007093

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One Quarter of Humanity by James Z. Lee,Wang Feng Pdf

The authors argue that there has been effective regulation of population growth in China through practices that depressed marital fertility to levels far below European standards, and through widespread infanticide and abortion. These practices contributed to a different demographic transition in China from the one that took place in the West.

Author : David Reisman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030019563

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Thomas Robert Malthus by David Reisman Pdf

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to overpopulation, the exhaustion of arable land and the deficiency of effective demand. Malthus relied on historical and empirical evidence in the spirit of Bacon and Hume, but also backed up his data with a priori hypotheses that link him to his contemporary, David Ricardo. Malthus was strongly in favour of free trade, the minimal State, the gold standard and the abolition of poverty relief. Always a pragmatist, however, he was just as much in favour of public education, contra-cyclical public works and a safety net of tariffs and bounties to encourage national self-sufficiency with regard to food. He was both an economist and a clergyman and saw the two roles as interconnected. Malthus believed that a benevolent Deity had created vice and misery in order to shake human beings out of their natural indolence that would otherwise have condemned them to still greater distress. This title provides a clear and comprehensive examination of Malthus’s economic and social thought. It will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568495870

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The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich Pdf

Author : Robert Zubrin
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641770057

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Merchants of Despair by Robert Zubrin Pdf

There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a species whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order. This is the core of antihumanism. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of this ideology and exposes its deadly consequences in startling and horrifying detail. The book names the chief prophets and promoters of antihumanism over the last two centuries, from Thomas Malthus through Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by the antihumanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in the United States and genocidal anti-development and population-control programs around the world. Combining riveting tales from history with powerful policy arguments, Merchants of Despair provides scientific refutations to antihumanism’s major pseudo-scientific claims, including its modern tirades against nuclear power, pesticides, population growth, biotech foods, resource depletion, industrial development, and, most recently, fear-mongering about global warming. Merchants of Despair exposes this dangerous agenda and makes the definitive scientific and moral case against it.

Author : Steven Mosher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351497923

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Population Control by Steven Mosher Pdf

For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a gigantic, costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. They have robbed people of the developing countries of their progeny and the people of the developed world of their pocketbooks. Determined to stop population growth at all costs, those Mosher calls "population controllers" have abused women, targeted racial and religious minorities, undermined primary health care programs, and encouraged dictatorial actions if not dictatorship. They have skewed the foreign aid programs of the United States and other developed countries in an anti-natal direction, corrupted dozens of well-intentioned nongovernmental organizations, and impoverished authentic development programs. Blinded by zealotry, they have even embraced the most brutal birth control campaign in history: China's infamous one-child policy, with all its attendant horrors. There is no workable demographic definition of "overpopulation." Those who argue for its premises conjure up images of poverty - low incomes, poor health, unemployment, malnutrition, overcrowded housing to justify anti-natal programs. The irony is that such policies have in many ways caused what they predicted - a world which is poorer materially, less diverse culturally, less advanced economically, and plagued by disease. The population controllers have not only studiously ignored mounting evidence of their multiple failures; they have avoided the biggest story of them all. Fertility rates are in free fall around the globe. Movements with billions of dollars at their disposal, not to mention thousands of paid advocates, do not go quietly to their graves. Moreover, many in the movement are not content to merely achieve zero population growth, they want to see negative population numbers. In their view, our current population should be reduced to one or two billion or so. Such a goal would keep these interest groups fully employed. It would also have dangerous consequences for a global environment.

Author : Thomas Malthus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141392837

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An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings by Thomas Malthus Pdf

Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease. He significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and his theories continue to raise important questions today in the fields of social theory, economics and the environment. With an introduction by Robert Mayhew.

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400871452

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Historical Studies of Changing Fertility by Charles Tilly Pdf

The nine papers in this volume examine the historical experience of particular populations in Western Europe and North America in a search for the processes that change fertility patterns. The contributors' findings enable them to reevaluate some of the conflicting hypotheses that have been advanced for these changes. The authors stress the effects on fertility of changing mortality. Several theoretical discussions emphasize the importance both of the turnover in adult positions due to mortality and of the highly variable life expectancy of children. The empirical analyses consistently reveal strong associations between levels of fertility and mortality. On the other hand, some essays question whether variations in opportunities to marry acted as quite the regulator that Malthus and many after him have thought. In both preindustrial and industrial populations, fertility regulation within marriage emerges as the primary mechanism by which adjustment occurred. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : W. Michael Byrd,Linda A. Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136600319

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An American Health Dilemma by W. Michael Byrd,Linda A. Clayton Pdf

First published in 2002. An American Health Dilemma is the story of medicine in the United States from the perspective of people who were consistently, officially mistreated, abused, or neglected by the Western medical tradition and the US health-care system. It is also the compelling story of African Americans fighting to participate fully in the health-care professions in the face of racism and the increased power of health corporations and HMOs. This tour-de-force of research on the relationship between race, medicine, and health care in the United States is an extraordinary achievement by two of the leading lights in the field of public health. Ten years out, it is finally updated, with a new third volume taking the story up to the present and beyond, remaining the premiere and only reference on black public health and the history of African American medicine on the market today. No one who is concerned with American race relations, with access to and quality of health care, or with justice and equality for humankind can afford to miss this powerful resource.

Author : W. Michael Byrd,Linda A. Clayton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0415927374

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An American Health Dilemma: Race, medicine, and health care in the United States 1900-2000 by W. Michael Byrd,Linda A. Clayton Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.