عنوان

Malthus :

شابک

0674728718 (alk. paper)

شابک

9780674728714 (alk. paper)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Malthus :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the life and legacies of an untimely prophet /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Robert J. Mayhew

نام خاص و کميت اثر

284 pages ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Opening the door on Malthus's roller coaster -- Before Malthus -- Prophets of perfection : a revolutionary triptych -- Malthus's "Essay" and the quiet revolution of 1798 -- Malthus as the malign muse of Romanticism -- Malthus and the making of environmental economics -- Malthus and the Victorians -- Malthus and the Dismal Age -- Malthus the Transatlantic celebrity -- Malthus today -- High time for the untimely prophet

بدون عنوان

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متن يادداشت

Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to overstep the limits of natural resources in "perpetual oscillation between happiness and misery," he found himself attacked on all sides -- by Romantic poets, utopian thinkers, and the religious establishment. Though Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. This book is at once a major reassessment of Malthus's ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment. Against the ferment of Enlightenment ideals about the perfectibility of mankind and the grim realities of life in the eighteenth century, Robert Mayhew explains the genesis of the Essay and Malthus's preoccupation with birth and death rates. He traces Malthus's collision course with the Lake poets, his important revisions to the Essay, and composition of his other great work, Principles of Political Economy. Mayhew suggests we see the author in his later writings as an environmental economist for his persistent concern with natural resources, land, and the conditions of their use. Mayhew then pursues Malthus's many afterlives in the Victorian world and beyond. Today, the Malthusian dilemma makes itself felt once again, as demography and climate change come together on the same environmental agenda. By opening a new door onto Malthus's arguments and their transmission to the present day, Robert Mayhew gives historical depth to our current planetary concerns

موضوع مستند نشده

Malthus, T. R., (Thomas Robert),1766-1834

موضوع مستند نشده

Malthus, T. R., (Thomas Robert),1766-1834.

موضوع مستند نشده

Demographers-- Great Britain, Biography

موضوع مستند نشده

Economists-- Great Britain, Biography

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mayhew, Robert J., (Robert John),1971-

تاريخ عمليات

20141009061723.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y