Population and Resources in Western Intellectual Traditions
Cambridge University Press
Published on 30. June 1989
Book
Hardback
318 pages
978-0-521-37538-2 (ISBN)
Description
Today's lively debate on population questions is rich in echoes of past intellectual traditions. The essays in this book survey these traditions over the last three centuries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
749 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-37538-2 (9780521375382)
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Content
Introduction MICHAEL S. TEITELBAUM and JAY M. WINTER Population and classical political thought Moral philosophy and population questions in eighteenth-century Europe SYLVANA TOMASELLI The limits to growth: Malthus and the classical economicsts E. A. WRIGLEY Socialist and Utopian thought in France before Marx JACQUELINE HECHT Population and ideology in modern times The western Marxist tradition and the population question: theory and practice WILLIAM PETERSEN Fascism and population in comparative European perspective PAUL WEINDLING Socialism, social democracy, and population questions in Western Europe: 1870-1950 JAY M. WINTER Catholic conservatives, population, and the family in twentieth-century France ANTOINE PROST Population and natural science Evolution and debates over human progress from Darwin to sociology SHARON KINGSLAND Human population from an ecological perspective FRANK GOLLEY Population and social science Demography in the social sciences PAUL DEMENY Social science approaches to international migration KINGSLEY DAVIS Population factors in development economics KENNETH BOULDING Population and the economics of natural resources ALLEN V. KNEESE.