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The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay

The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay

Charbit, Yves

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9048192978
ISBN13: 9789048192977
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 17 2010
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
1: Interpreting Ideas on Population.- 2: History and Utopia.- The Platonic City.- 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.- Jean Bodin on Sovereignty.- Demographic Interpretations of Jean Bodin.- The Theory of Absolute Sovereignty and Population.- Bodin on Aristotle and Plato.- 4: The Prince and his Population.- From Montchrétien to Colbert and Fénelon.- Merchantilism and Populationism.- About Population.- A National Economic Policy.- International Trade and the Colonies.- The Decline of Merchantilism: Political and Economic Factors.- For Want of Political Arithmetic.- 5: The Political Failure of an Economic Theory.- Quesnay and the Physiocracy.- Agriculture and Prosperity.- On population.- A failure and its Causes.- 6: Towards Demography.- The Prince, The Father, The Landlord.- The Conflict of Interests.- The Emergence of Individualism.- From Homo Eoconomicus to Homo Demographicus.- Bibliography.- Index

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