Intro; Also by David Reisman; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 From Theology to Political Economy; 1.2 Enemies and Friends; 1.3 An Underdeveloped Country; References; 2 Induction and Deduction; 2.1 The Mixed Methodology; 2.2 Population Malthus; References; 3 The Law of Population; 3.1 The Optimum Population; 3.2 The Ratios; 3.3 The Checks; 3.4 Moral Restraint; 3.5 The Road to Moral Restraint; 3.6 Employment; 3.7 Emigration; 3.8 Statement, Prediction and Tendency; References; 4 Public Policy; 4.1 Law and Order; 4.2 Good Government; 4.3 The Politics of Fear; 4.4 The State as Leader

4.4.1 Population4.4.2 Pay; 4.4.3 Property; 4.5 Education for Citizenship; References; 5 The Poor Laws; 5.1 Income Maintenance: The First Essay; 5.2 Poor People: The Later Essays; 5.3 Institutional Reform; 5.4 The Right to Welfare; 5.5 The Social Contract; 5.6 The End of the Poor Laws; References; 6 Balanced Growth; 6.1 The Surplus; 6.2 The Primary Sector; 6.3 The Secondary Sector; 6.4 The Dual Economy; 6.4.1 Reciprocal Demand; 6.4.2 A Balanced Economy; References; 7 Tariffs and Bounties; 7.1 Investigation of the High Price of Provisions (1800); 7.2 Observations on the Corn Laws (1814)

7.3 Grounds of an Opinion (1815)7.4 An Inquiry into Rent (1815); 7.4.1 Rents and Profits; 7.4.2 The Real Wage; 7.5 The Essay on Population; 7.6 The Land and the Principles; 7.6.1 Free Trade in Grain; 7.6.2 Rise and Fall; 7.7 Towards 1836; References; 8 The Circular Flow; 8.1 Wealth; 8.1.1 Goods; 8.1.2 Services; 8.2 Value; 8.3 Say's Law; 8.4 Oscillation and Trend; 8.4.1 The Fluctuations; 8.4.2 The Trend; 8.5 The Golden Mean; 8.6 Restoring the Balance; References; 9 Circular Flow and Social Class; 9.1 The Working Class; 9.1.1 The Population Constraint; 9.1.2 Earning and Spending

9.1.3 Informal Indexation9.1.4 Capital and Labour; 9.1.5 Jobless Growth; 9.2 The Middle Class; 9.3 The Landowners; 9.3.1 A Spending Class; 9.3.2 Unproductive Consumption; References; 10 Society and State; 10.1 The Distribution of Land; 10.1.1 Distance and Demand; 10.1.2 Land and Law; 10.1.3 Land and Politics; 10.2 Habits and Conventions; 10.3 State and Demand; 10.3.1 Spending and Taxing; 10.3.2 The National Debt; References; 11 Foreign Trade; 11.1 The Gains from Trade; 11.2 Home and Abroad; References; 12 Money; 12.1 The Economics of the Suspension; 12.1.1 The Bullionist Controversy

12.1.2 Malthus and the Suspension12.2 A Return to Specie; 12.2.1 The Quantity of Money; 12.2.2 The International Standard; 12.2.3 Modifications and Extensions; 12.3 Forced Saving; References; 13 God's Design; 13.1 Mind and Matter; 13.2 Activity; 13.3 Utility; 13.4 The Dilemma of Utility; 13.5 Compulsion by Consent; 13.6 From Nature to Revelation; 13.7 The Shadow of Paley; 13.8 Was Malthus a Christian?; References; 14 Malthus's Legacy: A System of Ideas; References; Index