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100	1		_aCharbit, Yves. _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Classical Foundations of Population Thought _h[electronic resource] : _bFrom Plato to Quesnay / _cby Yves Charbit.
264		1	_aDordrecht : _bSpringer Netherlands : _bImprint: Springer, _c2011.
300			_aVII, 179p. _bonline resource.
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0		_a1: Interpreting Ideas on Population -- 2: History and Utopia -- The Platonic City -- The Demography of the City -- Religion and Politics -- Space and Order -- Moderation and Excess -- A Totalitarian System? -- 3: There are no Riches other than Men -- Jean Bodin on Sovereignty -- Demographic Interpretations of Jean Bodin -- The Theory of Absolute Sovereignty and Population -- Bodin on Aristotle and Plato -- 4: The Prince and his Population -- From Montchrétien to Colbert and Fénelon -- Merchantilism and Populationism -- About Population -- A National Economic Policy -- International Trade and the Colonies -- The Decline of Merchantilism: Political and Economic Factors -- For Want of Political Arithmetic -- 5: The Political Failure of an Economic Theory -- Quesnay and the Physiocracy -- Agriculture and Prosperity -- On population -- A failure and its Causes -- 6: Towards Demography -- The Prince, The Father , The Landlord -- The Conflict of Interests -- The Emergence of Individualism -- From Homo Eoconomicus to Homo Demographicus -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aWhereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected. Specialists systematically ignore a noteworthy paradox: strictly speaking, the great intellectual figures of the past dealt with in this book have not produced demographic theories or doctrines as such, but they have certainly given some thought to population at both levels. First, the central epistemological and methodological orientation of the book is presented. Ideas on population, far from being part of the harmonious advancement of knowledge are the product of their context, that is evidently demographic, but also economic, political and above all intellectual. Then the ideas on population of Plato, Bodin, the French mercantilists, Quesnay and the physiocrats are examined under this light. The last chapter addresses the implicit philosophical, economic and political issues of population thought.
650		0	_aSocial sciences.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, classical.
650		0	_aDemography.
650	1	4	_aSocial Sciences.
650	2	4	_aDemography.
650	2	4	_aClassical Philosophy.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9789048192977
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9298-4
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