| 书目名称 | Thomas Robert Malthus |
| 编辑 | David Reisman |
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| 概述 | Looks at the economics, politics and life of Thomas Robert Malthus.Shows how Malthus’s thought evolved through the successive editions of the Essay on Population and of the Principles.Utilises unpubli |
| 丛书名称 | Great Thinkers in Economics |
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| 描述 | .Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to overpopulation, the exhaustion of arable land and the deficiency of effective demand..Malthus relied on historical and empirical evidence in the spirit of Bacon and Hume, but also backed up his data with a priori hypotheses that link him to his contemporary, David Ricardo. Malthus was strongly in favour of free trade, the minimal State, the gold standard and the abolition of poverty relief. Always a pragmatist, however, he was just as much in favour of public education, contra-cyclical public works and a safety net of tariffs and bounties to encourage national self-sufficiency with regard to food. He was both an economist and a clergyman and saw the two roles as interconnected. Malthus believed that a benevolent Deity had created vice and misery in order to shake human beings out of their natural indolence that would otherwise have condemned them to still greater distress. .This title provides a |
| 出版日期 | Book 2018 |
| 关键词 | Thomas Robert Malthus; History of economic thought; Population economics; Population Malthus; Agricultur |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01956-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-13203-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-01956-3Series ISSN 2662-6276 Series E-ISSN 2662-6284 |
| issn_series | 2662-6276 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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