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Author Ross, Eric B.

Title The Malthus factor : population, poverty, and politics in capitalist development / Eric B. Ross.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  338.9 R823M    Check Shelf
Description 264 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-253) and index.
Contents Politics and paradigms: the origins of Malthusian theory -- Ireland: the "promised land" of Malthusian theory? -- Malthusian transformations: from eugenics to environmentalism -- Malthusianism, demography and the cold war -- The life and death of land reform -- False premises, false promises: Malthusianism and the green revolution -- The technology of non-revolutionary change and the demise of peasant agriculture -- Malthusianism after the cold war: the struggle continues.
Subject Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.
Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834 -- Influence.
Overpopulation -- Economic aspects.
Poverty.
Capitalism.
Economic development.
ISBN 1856495639
1856495647 paperback
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