Eric B. Ross: The Malthus Factor

Cover: 9781856495646 | The Malthus Factor | Eric B. Ross | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 1998

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Beschreibung

This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. It highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress. The leading historical example the author takes offers a major reassessment of the origins of the Irish Famine. His contemporary case study focuses on the Green Revolution, which the author analyzes in terms of a broad Western strategy of capitalist agricultural development in the face of peasant insurgency.

Finally, the book examines how the political economy of underdevelopment is currently being obscured by alarm over the environmental impact of over-population, and how such Malthusian concerns represent the poor, not as victims of capitalist development, but as perpetrators of environmental destruction.

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Eric B Ross

Zusammenfassung

A critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. It highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Politics and Paradigms: The Origins of Malthusian Theory
2. Ireland: The "Promised Land" of Malthusian Theory?
3. Malthusian Transformations: From Eugenics to Environmentalism
4. Malthusianism, Demography and the Cold War
5. The Life and Death of Land Reform
6. False Premises, False Promises: Malthusianism and the Green Revolution
7. The Technology of Non-Revolutionary Change and the Demise of Peasant Agriculture
Conclusion - Malthusianism after the Cold War: The Struggle Continues
References
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781856495646
ISBN-10:	1856495647
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ross, Eric B.
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Eric B. Ross
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.1998
Gewicht:	0,393 kg