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Progress, Poverty and Population Re-reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus
By John Avery
Copyright 1978
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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This work traces the history of a debate which took place among the economists, political philosophers and writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, about whether the benefits of scientific progress would be nullified by the growth of the global population.
Condorcet; Godwin; Frankenstein's monster; Malthus; the iron law. Epilogue: who was right? Appendix: Condorcet's Sur l'admission des femmes au droit de Cite.
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Authored by Avery, John
