Pre-Malthusian Doctrines of Population: a Study in the History of Economic Theory / Charles Emil Stangeland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stangeland, Charles Emil, 1881-1942, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1904]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents the theories and doctrines of population advanced prior to the publication of Mathus's essay in 1798.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. CLASSICAL DOCTRINES

CHAPTER II. RELIGIONS AND POPULATION

CHAPTER III. FIRST MODERN VIEWS: FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH TO THE MIDDLE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER IV. THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM AND POPULATION

CHAPTER V. MERCANTILIST AND OTHER WRITERS, PARTICULARLY IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, 1660-1748

CHAPTER VI. THE CAMERALISTIC AND OTHER GERMAN LITERATURE ON POPULATION FROM PUFENDORF TO SUESSMILCH

CHAPTER VII. THEORIES OF POPULATION IN FRANCE, 1748-1776

CHAPTER VIII. ENGLISH, ITALIAN AND GERMAN DISCUSSIONS OF POPULATION, 1749-1775

CHAPTER IX. THEORIES OF POPULATION IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

CONCLUSION

VITA

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88849-X

OCLC:

1100437169