Malthus’s Legacy: A System of Ideas

David Reisman
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David Reisman: Nanyang Technological University

Chapter Chapter 14 in Thomas Robert Malthus, 2018, pp 293-299 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is easy to treat Malthus’s disparate writings on population, productivity, distribution, effective demand, forced saving, money and God as isolated and free-standing contributions that do not add up to a whole. It is true that he never wrote an ambitious summing-up analogous to Smith’s Wealth of Nations. This chapter suggests, however, a different interpretation. The conclusion is reached that the separate elements are all parts of a single project in which human life becomes, through economics, an earthly paradise and not a veil of tears.

Keywords: Malthusian; Population Malthus; Economic thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01956-3_14

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