Progress, Poverty and Population: Re-reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus - Rilegato

Avery, John

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ISBN 10: 0714647500 ISBN 13: 9780714647500

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

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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.

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Are poverty, misery, famine, disease and war inevitably part of the human condition? Will the creations of science become uncontrollable and socially dangerous, like Frankenstein's monster? Or can science and education create a world of material plenty - a war-free world, where the benevolent, creative and intellectual sides of human nature will have a chance to flourish? This book tries to answer these questions by tracing the history of a debate which took place among the economists, political philosophers and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was a debate in which the Utopian vision of optimists such as the Marquis de Condorcet and William Godwin was opposed by those such as Thomas Robert Malthus, who believed that the benefits of scientific progress would inevitably be nullified by the growth of the global population. This book follows that debate, which also involved people such as Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Ricardo, Mill and Darwin. In a final chapter, the question of who was right is examined from the vantage-point of our own times.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0714647500
• ISBN 13: 9780714647500
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 168