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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:
    non sort: The
    title: Classical Foundations of Population Thought
    sub title: From Plato to Quesnay
  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: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 179 p. online resource.
  abstract: Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected. Specialists systematically ignore a noteworthy paradox: strictly speaking, the great intellectual figures of the past dealt with in this book have not produced demographic theories or doctrines as such, but they have certainly given some thought to population at both levels. First, the central epistemological and methodological orientation of the book is presented. Ideas on population, far from being part of the harmonious advancement of knowledge are the product of their context, that is evidently demographic, but also economic, political and above all intellectual. Then the ideas on population of Plato, Bodin, the French mercantilists, Quesnay and the physiocrats are examined under this light. The last chapter addresses the implicit philosophical, economic and political issues of population thought.
  table of contents: 1: Interpreting Ideas on Population -- 2: History and Utopia -- The Platonic City -- The Demography of the City -- Religion and Politics -- Space and Order -- Moderation and Excess -- A Totalitarian System? -- 3: There are no Riches other than Men -- Jean Bodin on Sovereignty -- Demographic Interpretations of Jean Bodin -- The Theory of Absolute Sovereignty and Population -- Bodin on Aristotle and Plato -- 4: The Prince and his Population -- From Montchrétien to Colbert and Fénelon -- Merchantilism and Populationism -- About Population -- A National Economic Policy -- International Trade and the Colonies -- The Decline of Merchantilism: Political and Economic Factors -- For Want of Political Arithmetic -- 5: The Political Failure of an Economic Theory -- Quesnay and the Physiocracy -- Agriculture and Prosperity -- On population -- A failure and its Causes -- 6: Towards Demography -- The Prince, The Father , The Landlord -- The Conflict of Interests -- The Emergence of Individualism -- From Homo Eoconomicus to Homo Demographicus -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Yves Charbit.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Demography
  subject:
    topic: Classical Philosophy
  classification: HB848-3697
  classification: 304.6
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      title: Springer eBooks
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