Rey Ty. Thomas Malthus according to Thomas Piketty in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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Thomas Malthus• Essay on the Principle
of Population (1798)• Overpopulation: threat• Based on English
agronomist Arthur Young’s diary during his 1787-88 travel in France on the eve of the Revolution: From Calais to Pyrenees & from Brittany to Franche-Comté
• Poverty in France Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus• Then, France was most
populous country in Europe; Best place to observe
• 20 Million in France• 8 Million in Britain; 5
Million for England alone
• By 1780: France 30 M• High pop growth, low
agricultural wages, high land rent
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus• Hence,
unpopular aristocracy & existing political regime• Lead to French
Revolution Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus• But Arthur Young’s
account (1792) had (1) nationalistic prejudice & (2) misleading comparisons
• Young did not like the inns where he stayed & their waitresses
• He was generalizing from anecdotes.
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus• Arthur Young was
worried that mass poverty would lead to mass upheavals.
• He believed that only the English political system with separate houses of Parliament for the aristocracy & commoners & veto power for the nobility could lead to peace & development lead by responsible people. Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus
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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus•Reflection
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus•Reflection on Population
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Urban Population
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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
Population Density
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Thomas Malthus• Arthur Young believed
that France would collapse when in 1789-90 it decided that aristocrats & commoners sat in a single legislative body.
• His view was over-determined by his fear of revolution in France.
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus• Piketty: “Whenever
one speaks about the distribution of wealth, politics is never very far behind, and it is difficult for anyone to escape contemporary class prejudices and interests.” (p. 4)
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus• Piketty: “It is
impossible to understand Malthus’ exaggeratedly somber predictions without recognizing the way fear gripped much of the European elite in the 1790s.” (p. 5)
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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•Your Critique?
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Discussion
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http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/
DON’T PANIC — The Facts About Population
Swedish Statistics Professor Hans Rosling
The world might not be as bad as you might believe!
Don’t Panic – is a one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcasted on BBC on the 7th of November 2013.The visualizations are based on original graphics and stories by Gapminder and the underlaying data-sources are listed here.Hans’s — “All time favorite graph”, is an animating bubble chart which you can interact with online hereand download offline here.Hans presents some results from our UK Ignorance Survey described here.Director & Producer; Dan Hillman, Executive Producer: Archie Baron. ©Wingspan Productions for BBC, 2013.A DVD version of this film is available to order from Wingspan Productions.
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Thomas Malthus•Reflection on Food & Population
Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.
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Thomas Malthus•Food & Population
http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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Thomas Malthus•Food Production by Value 2006
http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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Thomas Malthus•Global Pattern of Food Consumption
http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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Thomas Malthus•Underweight Children
http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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Thomas Malthus•Conclusion–Need to have fact-based and evidence-based worldviews
http://thebritishgeographer.weebly.com/spatial-patterns-of-food.html
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Reference for Malthus:• Thomas Piketty. (2014).
Capital in th twenty-first century. Cambridge, MA & London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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