CHARBIT (Yves) – FROM MALTHUSIANISM TO POPULATIONISM. French Economists and Population, 1840-1870, Preface by Alfred Sauvy, National Institute for Demographic Studies, coll. Works and Documents, Booklet No. 90
CHARBIT (Yves) – FROM MALTHUSIANISM TO POPULATIONISM. French Economists and Population, 1840-1870, Preface by Alfred Sauvy, National Institute for Demographic Studies, coll. Works and Documents, Booklet No. 90
    CHARBIT (Yves)
    FROM MALTHUSIANISM TO POPULATIONISM. French Economists and Population, 1840-1870, Preface by Alfred Sauvy, National Institute for Demographic Studies, Works and Documents Collection, Booklet No. 90
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1981
    octavo, paperback, good condition, 307 p. + catalogue.
    “Mr. Charbit’s argument, however, is more theoretical than historical. The questions he poses, and intends to answer, are indeed these: can a demographic doctrine be explained solely in relation to demographic facts themselves? And more generally: is a supposedly scientific contribution truly free from all ideological references? […] We must therefore thank Mr. Charbit for not only refreshing and broadening our knowledge of a very rich period from a historical and ideological point of view, but also for providing entirely convincing answers to the ongoing debate about the link between ideas and facts. Ideology is clearly a relatively independent variable here, with a life of its own and reacting to impulses quite different from purely demographic stimuli.” This very dense and richly documented work, with its judiciously chosen examples and quotations, makes an important contribution to the analysis of a concept originally defined by Destutt de Tracy, whose first incarnations had already been ridiculed by Napoleon and whose bourgeois avatars have been constantly fought by Marx. (Jacqueline Hecht, Annales de Démographie Historique, Year 1982, p. 405 et seq.).

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