Politics and population control : a documentary history

Tobin, Kathleen A. 1957- (Author).

Summary: "This book shows that population issues - numbers of people, how to feed them, their employment, racial makeup, intelligence, health, sexual behavior, and reproduction - have concerned authorities for centuries. The primary documents in this volume illustrate those concerns from the mid-18th century to the present. Provided is background information on each document and coverage of a variety of population perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0313322791 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 171 p. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Resources -- An essay on the principle of population / T. R. Malthus -- Of population / William Godwin -- A letter to the Rev. T. R. Malthus / David Booth -- "Outlines of a critique of political economy" / Friedrich Engels -- Contemporary social problems : a course of lectures / Achille Loria -- The science of society / William Graham Sumner and Albert Galloway Keller -- "Population pressure in Japan" / Warren S. Thompson -- The population bomb / Paul R. Ehrlich -- Our overcrowded world / Tadd Fisher -- "The conundrum of consumption" / Alan Thein Durning -- "The human factor" / Timothy E. Wirth -- 2. Economics -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- The wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- On political economy / Thomas Chalmers -- Surplus population / William Cobbett -- Wage labor and capital / Karl Marx -- The economics of progress / J. M. Robertson -- "Birth control in Soviet Russia" / Martha Ruben-Wolf -- "Some economic consequences of a declining population" / John Maynard Keynes -- The affluent society / John Kenneth Galbraith -- "Declaration of population strategy for development" --