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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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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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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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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

Urban Population

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

Population Density

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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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

Thomas Malthus

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Source: Piketty. (2014). Capital.

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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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Thomas Malthus

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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