Malthus'sEssay on Population: The facts of “super‐growth” and the rhetoric of scientific persuasion
作者:
Salim Rashid,
期刊:
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 1
页码: 22-36
ISSN:0022-5061
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1002/1520-6696(198701)23:1<22::AID-JHBS2300230104>3.0.CO;2-5
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractFor the Malthusian theory of population to be accepted as “scientific,” it was essential that the theory be established on wide empirical evidence. A close examination of the “facts” provided by Malthus, however, shows that many of his crucial facts are based on distortions of the available evidence. Malthus was probably aware of much of this weakness, but for rhetorical reasons he persisted with the sandy empirical foundations from which h
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