Abstract
It is easy to treat Malthus’s disparate writings on population, productivity, distribution, effective demand, forced saving, money and God as isolated and free-standing contributions that do not add up to a whole. It is true that he never wrote an ambitious summing-up analogous to Smith’s Wealth of Nations. This chapter suggests, however, a different interpretation. The conclusion is reached that the separate elements are all parts of a single project in which human life becomes, through economics, an earthly paradise and not a veil of tears.
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Reisman, D. (2018). Malthus’s Legacy: A System of Ideas. In: Thomas Robert Malthus . Great Thinkers in Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01956-3_14
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