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Book A Few Doubts as to the Correctness of Some Opinions Generally Entertained on the Subjects of Population and Political Economy

Download or read book A Few Doubts as to the Correctness of Some Opinions Generally Entertained on the Subjects of Population and Political Economy written by Piercy Ravenstone and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Essay on the Principle of Population

Download or read book An Essay on the Principle of Population written by Thomas Robert Malthus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989. Introduced by editor Shannon C. Stimson, this edition includes essays on the historical and political theoretical underpinnings of Malthus’s work by Niall O’Flaherty, Malthus’s influence on concepts of nature by Deborah Valenze, implications of his population model for political economy by Sir Anthony Wrigley, an assessment of Malthus’s theory in light of modern economic ideas by Kenneth Binmore, and a discussion of the Essay’s literary and cultural influence by Karen O’Brien. The result is an enlarged view of the political, social, and cultural impact of this profoundly influential work.

Book Tiny Engines of Abundance

Download or read book Tiny Engines of Abundance written by Jim Handy and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-15T00:00:00Z with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. These stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited needs, of sustainable livelihoods and of resilient self-reliance attacked relentlessly and mercilessly in the name of capital, progress, development, modernity and/or the state. For two hundred years we have been told that the hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of hungry mouths require that peasants be dispossessed to allow more industrious farmers to feed them. This book helps make it clear how wrong we have been. Handy’s approach is original, and the book will engage people interested in the history of the peasantry, rural development, and the quest for food sovereignty.

Book The British Critic  and Quarterly Theological Review

Download or read book The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Critic  Quarterly Theological Review  and Ecclesiastical Record

Download or read book British Critic Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Apostles of Inequality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Handy
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2022-03-31
  • ISBN : 1487563558
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Apostles of Inequality written by Jim Handy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often these meant depriving cottagers and rural workers of access to land they could cultivate, despite evidence that they were the most productive farmers in a country constantly short of food. Drawing from a wide range of contemporary sources, Apostles of Inequality argues that such attempts, driven by a flawed faith in the wonders of capital, did little to increase agricultural productivity and instead led to a century of increasing impoverishment in rural England. Jim Handy rejects the assertions about the benefits that accompanied the transition to "improved" agriculture and details the abundant evidence for the efficiency of smallholder, peasant agriculture. He traces the development of both economic theory and government policy through the work of agricultural improver Arthur Young (1741–1820), government advisor Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), and the editors and writers of the Economist, as well as Adam Smith and Thomas Robert Malthus. Apostles of Inequality demonstrates how a fascination with capital – promoted by political economy and farmers’ desires to have a labour force completely dependent on wage labour – fostered widespread destitution in rural England for over a century.

Book Hijacked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Anderson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-21
  • ISBN : 1009275402
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Hijacked written by Elizabeth Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today's neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the One Percent. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

Book Catalogue   With a general index    Ed  by T M  Shiells  With  Rules and regulations for the library

Download or read book Catalogue With a general index Ed by T M Shiells With Rules and regulations for the library written by Society of writers to the signet libr and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Current Economic Problems

Download or read book Current Economic Problems written by Walton Hale Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Malthusian Controversy

Download or read book The Malthusian Controversy written by Kenneth Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1951, focuses on the hitherto ignored contemporary critics of Malthus, giving them the attention they so rightly deserve. Dr Smith traces the Malthusian controversy step by step, from 1798, the date of the First Essay, to the death of Malthus in 1834. Investigating the precursors of Malthus and the genesis of the Malthusian Theory of Population, the book subjects the theory to a searching analysis in the light of not only contemporary criticism, but also subsequent developments and modern ideas. In addition, the book examines the application of the theory to the doctrine of perfectibility, to wages, to the poor laws, to emigration, and to the birth control movement. Fully annotated and written in an easy style, this work is indispensable to serious students of both population problems and the development of economic thought. Broad in scope, The Malthusian Controversy presents a new perspective on the most urgent of modern issues, the problem of world population.

Book Political Economy in Parliament 1819   1823

Download or read book Political Economy in Parliament 1819 1823 written by Barry Gordon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1976-06-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English  Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists

Download or read book English Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists written by Noel W. Thompson and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of essays on the Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Book Marx s Critique of Political Economy Volume Two

Download or read book Marx s Critique of Political Economy Volume Two written by Allen Oakley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Two covers the years 1861-1863, when Marx consolidated and refined the arguments of his critique of political economy in his relatively neglected manuscripts Theories of Surplus Value. * Special attention is paid to the nature, scope and limitations of Marx's critique and to the critique of Ricardo's Principles.

Book Studies in the Theory of International Trade

Download or read book Studies in the Theory of International Trade written by Jacob Viner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, originally published in 1937, Jacob Viner traces, in a series of studies of contemporary source-material, the evolution of the modern orthodox theory of international trade from its beginnings in the revolt against English mercantilism in the 17th and 18th centuries, through the English currency and tariff controversies of the 19th century, to the late 20th century. The author offers a detailed examination of controversies in the technical literature centering on important propositions of the classical and neo-classical economists relating to the theory of the mechanism of international trade and the theory of gain from trade.