...Joseph J. Spengler Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Alberuni: Eleventh-Century Iranian Malthusian? Joseph J. Spengler It is the object of the upper classes $0 be guided by the results of science...

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... lively, well-written book and in a 1997 Cambridge Journal of Economics article, the promi- nent development economist John Toye calls attention to the neo-Malthusian views about population and the terms of trade in Keynes’s May 1914 lecture at Oxford on population, the earliest version of what became...

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... false if we want to understand why two gen- erations of some of the best brains in economics advocated a theory that they all knew to be utterly nonoperational and only valid as a crude ap- proximation. No one believes any longer in the Malthusian theory of population, so let us have Ricardo and...

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... adjectival form, features in many popular discussions of the link between population and the natural environment. (The business press, in particular, delights in applying the “Malthusian” label to those it deems overly concerned about the economic or environmental impact of increasing human numbers...

... attack by modern day Malthusians who question the realism of the assumptions and, hence, the relevance of the conclusions. The Malthusians, in turn, are criticized by the other side for failing to be sufficiently “rigorous,” that is, for not deriving their conclusions deduc- tively from...

... Thomas Robert Malthus. Economic Journal 45 : 221 -34. Boserup , Esther . 1965 . The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure . London: Earthscan. Boulding , Kenneth . 1955 . The Malthusian Model as a General System. Social and...

... Marx understood himself as revolutionizing the economics of wages, and it pays attention also to the political and ideological issues involved. These are not limited to the apologetics of orthodox economists, who embraced Malthusianism and the notion of a predetermined wage-fund to ex- plain why...

... Poor Laws, he was also aware of the revolution-creating effects of too severe social policy. Ricardo was a simple Malthusian; the mature Malthus was not a simple anything. But this is an aside. What emerged was a series of hard-nosed reforms, each more Draconian than its predecessor...

.... 1927 . ‘The historical setting of the Malthusian controversy.’ In T. E. Gregory and Hugh Dalton, eds., London essays in economics: in honor of Edwin Cannan (London), 136 -56. Cobbett , William 1819 . ‘What is the People?’ Political Essays in Cobbett's Works, vol. 7 . Corry , B. A...

... theology was continuously on the defensive.8 In political economy the Malthusian view of a growing population as a major source of suffering and misery dismayed and aroused the wrath of most orthodox clergyman. Even so liberal a bishop as Richard Watson thought a statement of the Biblical...

... contrary. We can also give a date for the attempt to divorce the two fields: William Stanley Jevons’s pronouncement in 1871 that although he accepted the “truth and vast importance” of the Malthusian population principle, “it forms no part of the direct problem of Economics.” Jevons...

... the dominant English school of ;thought. In fact in the space uf a few years in the late sixties and early seventies the Ricardo-Mill system of theory underwed a remarkably Theory. Walras is only prepared to agree to a very soft version of the Malthusian theory and strongly rejects...

... neglected mid-nineteenth-century political economist George Poulett Scrope. From a dual dialogue—with the radical critics of inequality and the Malthusian apologists for pover- ty—emerged Scrope’s non-Christian moral theory of the reciprocal in- terest of the rich and the poor, built around a positive...

... Hume, Malthus, and the stability of equilibrium A. M. C. Waterman I. The Equivalence of Humean and Malthusian Models Equilibrium models of social explanation have been used since the earliest days of classical political economy. In this article I shall be concerned with two of...