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The Classical Foundations of Population Thought - From Plato to Quesnay
von: Yves Charbit
Springer-Verlag, 2010
ISBN: 9789048192984 , 179 Seiten
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: DRM
Preis: 96,29 EUR
Contents
4
1 Interpreting Ideas on Population
7
Population Doctrines and Theories
7
Some Conceptual and Methodological Preambles
8
Contextualisation of Ideas on Population
10
External Coherence and Internal Coherence
13
Annex: The Old Testament and the Sin of Anachronism
15
2 History and Utopia
19
Plato, a Forerunner of Demography?
19
The Demography of the City
20
A Constant Size
20
Plato and His Commentators
22
Inconsistencies and Contradictions
26
Religion and Politics
29
Mathematics and Religion
29
Stationarity Against Democracy
31
Space and Order
35
The Death of Socrates: The City and the Individual
35
Peace in the City: The Distribution of Space
37
Atlantis
39
Moderation and Excess
42
A Totalitarian System?
44
3 There Are No Riches Other Than Men
48
Demographic Interpretations of Jean Bodin
48
The Theory of Absolute Sovereignty and Population
50
Immigration
55
On Censuses
56
Against Sorcery
58
Bodin on Plato and Aristotle
62
4 The Prince and His Population
68
Mercantilism and Populationism
68
About Population
74
The Edicts of February 1556 and November 1666
75
Labour and Employment
78
Combat Poverty
80
Antoine de Montchrétien and Foreigners
83
A National Economic Policy
86
The Kingdom's Self-Sufficiency
87
Raw Materials and Imports
89
Industrialisation and Exports
91
International Trade and the Colonies
93
The Great Trading Companies and the Navy
94
Against Dutch Imperialism
98
Slavery in the West Indies
101
Populating Canada
104
The Decline of Mercantilism: Political and Economic Factors
107
Fénelon: Political Absolutism and Population
107
A Controversial Economic System
112
For Want of Political Arithmetic
115
5 The Political Failure of an Economic Theory
119
The Physiocratic Movement
119
Agriculture and Prosperity
122
The Sterility of Industry and Trade
122
The Net Product
124
The English Example
125
On Population
127
Population, a Dependent Variable
128
Decorative Luxury and Subsistence Luxury
131
Economic Freedom and Population
132
Taxes and Population
134
The Question of Armies
136
A Failure and Its Causes
137
An Unconvincing Strategy for Development
138
The Fear of Famine, a Political Trap
139
Economics and Policy: Fundamental Contradictions
142
6 Towards Demography
146
Population and Political Power
146
The Prince, the Father, the Landlord
148
Reigning over Family and Society
149
Property and Population
151
The Conflict of Interests
153
The Atomistic Principle
153
Arbitrating Interests and Educating the People
156
The Emergence of Individualism
158
Challenging Absolutism
158
Taking Account of the Subject
161
From Homo Oeconomicus to Homo Demographicus
163
Political Economy and Population
163
Malthus
164
Bibliography
166
Index
175
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