Season 9.1 · 3 Dec 2020#7 Answers to questions (continued)- 1:18:49Criticized by Marx for ignoring production; African children are also productive forces.
Malthus
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Who is this?Thomas Robert Malthus (; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the population, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. […]
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Season 9.1 · 3 Dec 2020#7 Answers to questions (continued)
Talks · 6 Oct 2020Calves and Things (3): The dictatorship of the bobotariat- 14:09At least posed the relation between demography and resources, which ecologist neo-Malthusianism has suppressed.
Talks · 31 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise. Part 2- 1:11:07Ecological questions treated in a societal mode revive Malthus, whom Marx mocked as a vulgar economist.
Talks · 8 Jun 2017Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)- 41:17The late Lévi-Strauss rejoins his obsession with overpopulation.