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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Economic, Social and Demographic Thought in the XIXth Century
    sub title: The Population Debate from Malthus to Marx
  name:
    name part: Charbit, Yves.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 190 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 oversimplification. Both raised the same crucial question: when considered as an economic variable, how does population fit into the analysis of economic growth? Even though they started from the same analytical standpoint, Marx established a very different diagnosis from that of Malthus and built a social doctrine no less divergent. The book also discusses the theoretical and doctrinal contribution of the liberal economists, writing at the onset of the industrial revolution in France (1840-1870), and those of their contemporary, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who shared with Marx the denunciation of the capitalist system. By paying careful attention to the social, economic, and political context, this book goes beyond the shortcomings of the classification between pro- and anti-populationism. It sheds new light over nineteenth century controversies over population in France, a case study for Europe.
  table of contents: The Population Controversy and Beyond -- Population, Economic Growth and Religion: Malthus as a Populationist -- From Malthusianism to Populationism: The French Liberal Economists (1840–1870) -- The Malthusian Trap: The Failure of Proudhon -- Capitalism and Population: Marx and Engels Against Malthus -- Beneath Demographic Issues.
  note: by Yves Charbit.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Population
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  subject:
    topic: Population Economics
  subject:
    topic: Methodology/History of Economic Thought
  subject:
    topic: Methodology of the Social Sciences
  classification: HB848-3697
  classification: 304.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402099601
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9960-1
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204190733.0
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