The Classical Foundations of Population Thought From Plato to Quesnay /

• Main Author: Charbit, Yves (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Classical Philosophy.

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...