ISBN:
9789048192977
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (181 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Classical Foundations of Population Thought
DDC:
304.609
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected. Specialists systematically ignore a noteworthy paradox: strictly speaking, the great intellectual figures of the past dealt with in this book have not produced demographic theories or doctrines as such, but they have certainly given some thought to population at both levels. First, the central epistemological and methodological orientation of the book is presented. Ideas on population, far from being part of the harmonious advancement of knowl
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 1 Interpreting Ideas on Population; Population Doctrines and Theories; Some Conceptual and Methodological Preambles; Contextualisation of Ideas on Population; External Coherence and Internal Coherence; Annex: The Old Testament and the Sin of Anachronism; 2 History and Utopia; Plato, a Forerunner of Demography?; The Demography of the City; Religion and Politics; Space and Order; Moderation and Excess; A Totalitarian System?; 3 There Are No Riches Other Than Men; Demographic Interpretations of Jean Bodin; The Theory of Absolute Sovereignty and Population; Bodin on Plato and Aristotle
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4 The Prince and His PopulationMercantilism and Populationism; About Population; A National Economic Policy; International Trade and the Colonies; The Decline of Mercantilism: Political and Economic Factors; For Want of Political Arithmetic; 5 The Political Failure of an Economic Theory; The Physiocratic Movement; Agriculture and Prosperity; On Population; A Failure and Its Causes; 6 Towards Demography; Population and Political Power; The Prince, the Father, the Landlord; The Conflict of Interests; The Emergence of Individualism; From Homo Oeconomicus to Homo Demographicus; Bibliography
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