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by Eric B. Ross

Author: Eric B. Ross
Language: English
ISBN: 1856495639
ISBN13: 978-1856495639
Publisher: Zed Books (December 15, 1998)
Pages: 272
Category: Economics
Subcategory: Perfomance
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Eric Ross's powerful critique sets the record straight and the use of case studies is really good.

Eric Ross's powerful critique sets the record straight. About the Author and the use of case studies is really good.

New York: Zed Books, 1998. 264 pp. Do you want to read the rest of this article? Request full-text. Citations (4). References (0). Neo-Malthusian Population Control. Recommendations for improved landscape design pertain to both new developments and remodeling of existing residential landscapes to balance interactions with community and interactions with nature. Highlights of the conclusions include: replacement of the front yard with perennial gardens, distancing of large plants from structure foundations, the creation of a back yard visual screen and outdoor room, and planting styles to enhance the visual depth of field.

The Malthus Factor book. This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking.

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Bibliographic Details. Title: The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and. Publisher: Zed Books Publication Date: 1998 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Good. 1. the malthus factor. Published by ZED BOOKS LTD, LONDON (1998). ISBN 10: 1856495639 ISBN 13: 9781856495639. LONDON, 1998, viii 264 p. Encuadernacion original.

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Published 1998 by Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press in London, New York, New York.

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It has received praise as an important work, but Sweezy has also been criticized for misrepresenting Karl Marx's economic theories. Sweezy expounds and defends the labor theory of value. The book is divided into four sections. Value and Surplus Value. 2. The Accumulation Process. 3. Crisis and Depression.

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This book represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. Taking an historical and comparative view, it highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress.The leading historical example the author takes offers a major reassessment of the origins of the Irish Famine. His contemporary case study focuses on the Green Revolution, which the author analyses in terms of a broad Western strategy of capitalist agricultural development in the face of peasant insurgency. He examines how Malthusian arguments portrayed agricultural modernization as a humanitarian attempt to forestall a food crisis in the developing world when, in reality, he argues the agenda was to defer land reform and bolster existing rural class structures. Finally, the book examines how the political economy of underdevelopment is currently being obscured by alarm over the environmental impact of over-population, and how such Malthusian concerns represent the poor, not as victims of capitalist development, but as perpetrators of environmental destruction.

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Ross' analysis of Cold War uses of Malthusian dogma is succinct and brings a fresh and consistent analysis to, "the increasing subordination of demographic thinking to the Cold War." Ross examines the uses of the United States' Cold War policy directives which represented the underdeveloped world's demographic state (literally) as a "population bomb" needing to be defused by technicians from the North before its detonation shattered the global economic order. Further, Ross contextualizes Hardin's just-so-story of the Tragedy of the Commons as a Cold War parable passed on as empirical fact, a parable that teaches us that only private property, and an unequal distribution of resources can lead to social harmony.
The Malthus Factor is packed with detailed examples of how wide-ranging Malthus' impact on society has been, from discussions of the connections between the Green Revolution's fertilizer requirements and linkages between munitions industries and fertilizer industries, to links between the rise of the American Eugenics movement and the historical demise of American midwifery, to the roles of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in funding the Eugenics movement. Even readers who disagrees with Ross' theoretical approach to Malthus will learn something of value from his analysis. I expect that this book will soon become required reading for any graduate student studying for exams covering both demographic theory and political economy.

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Synopsis from Amazon.co.uk -- This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. It highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress.

Uleran

I agree, this book presents an interesting reinterpretation of Malthus and his theories.. and the use of case studies is really good. But the writing is dry, and I found it extremely difficult to get through.. but once you do the conceptual background is very intriguing.