1st Edition

French Predecessors of Malthus

By Joseph J. Spengler Copyright 1966
    412 Pages
    by Routledge

    412 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1966. This volume is study of the population and wage theories prevalent in the eighteenth century France. Designed to fill a gap in previous volumes in the history of economic doctrine; and to better accomplish this purpose, population and wage theory has been given a broader denotation and connotation than is customary today.

    Chapter 1 Pre-Eighteenth-Century Population Theory; Chapter 2 The Neomercantilists and the Agrarians; Chapter 3 The Repopulationists; Chapter 4 Cantillon and the Theory of Luxury; Chapter 5 Quesnay and the Physiocrats; Chapter 6 The Philosophes; Chapter 7 The Nonphysiocratic Economists; Chapter 8 The Extreme Antiphysiocrats; Chapter 9 Conclusions and Interpretation;

    Biography

    Joseph J. Spengler