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... essays from foremost influential economic theorists , arranged to illustrate thought develop- ment and its numerous reversals . The first section includes essays from Jo- seph J. Spengler , John Graunt , Will- iam Petty , Thomas R ...
... essays from foremost influential economic theorists , arranged to illustrate thought develop- ment and its numerous reversals . The first section includes essays from Jo- seph J. Spengler , John Graunt , Will- iam Petty , Thomas R ...
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... Essay in Political Arithmetick William Petty 29 From Enquiry Concerning Political Justice William Godwin 37 5 . From An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society ( First Edition ) Thomas R ...
... Essay in Political Arithmetick William Petty 29 From Enquiry Concerning Political Justice William Godwin 37 5 . From An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society ( First Edition ) Thomas R ...
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... Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society ( First Edition ) Thomas R. Malthus 219 27 . From An Essay on the Principle of Population , or A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human ...
... Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society ( First Edition ) Thomas R. Malthus 219 27 . From An Essay on the Principle of Population , or A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human ...
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... Essay . The Classical Period The wave of antipopulation writing that bore Malthus began in the middle of the eighteenth century , Schumpeter tells us , and its emer- gence is a puzzle . [ C ] onditions did not substantially change in ...
... Essay . The Classical Period The wave of antipopulation writing that bore Malthus began in the middle of the eighteenth century , Schumpeter tells us , and its emer- gence is a puzzle . [ C ] onditions did not substantially change in ...
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... essay Malthus came to agree that people really might limit families voluntarily — which , it should be noted , is equivalent to the assumption that technological progress could win a " race " with population growth . " Throughout the ...
... essay Malthus came to agree that people really might limit families voluntarily — which , it should be noted , is equivalent to the assumption that technological progress could win a " race " with population growth . " Throughout the ...
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Page 102 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page xv - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations...
Page 57 - College spread with one kind only ; as, for instance, with fennel : and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only ; as, for instance, with Englishmen.
Page 71 - The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population.
Page 101 - This impossibility of ultimately avoiding the stationary state — this irresistible necessity that the stream of human industry should finally spread itself out into an apparently stagnant sea — must have been, to the political economists of the last two generations, an unpleasing and discouraging prospect ; for the tone and tendency of their speculations goes completely to identify all that is economically desirable with the progressive state, and with that alone.
Page 49 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Page 49 - ... half that number. And, at the conclusion of the first century, the population would be...
Page 45 - First, that food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, that the passion between the sexes is necessary, and will remain nearly in its present state.
Page 51 - That population cannot increase without the means of subsistence is a proposition so evident that it needs no illustration. That population does invariably increase where there are the means of subsistence, the history of every people that have ever existed will abundantly prove. And that the superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice, the ample portion of these too bitter ingredients in the cup of human life and the continuance of the physical causes that seem...
Page 103 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.