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This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on … the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also … birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of …
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"This paper examines the central hypothesis of the influential Malthusian theory, according to which improvements in the technological environment during the pre-industrial era had generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger, but not significantly richer,...
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-- 7. Malthus’ Essay -- 8. Godwin’s Thoughts -- 9. Of Population -- 10. The Westminster Review. 11. Conclusion. …This book explores the lifelong dialogue between Thomas Robert Malthus and the libertarian anarchist William Godwin … industrial order and his insights into a post-acquisitive, post-conflictual future. It shows that Malthus felt Godwin had …
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