Thomas Malthus, Ester Boserup, and Agricultural Development Models in the Age of Limits
| Autor: | Scott D. Soby |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Dialectic
History Agricultural development 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Neoclassical economics Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Argument 0502 economics and business Economics Environmental Chemistry Economic geography 050207 economics 050703 geography General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 30:87-98 |
| ISSN: | 1573-322X 1187-7863 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10806-017-9655-x |
| Popis: | Two competing models have served as the basis for agricultural development policies. One is based on observations and assumptions of The Reverend Thomas Malthus in late eighteenth century Britain, and the other from the Danish economist Ester Boserup in the mid-twentieth century. However, rational agricultural development decisions can only be made using a model that incorporates assumptions based on a technically appropriate model that takes into account the currently status of global systems. A new development model may incorporate elements of both Neo-Malthusian and Boserupian economic-demographic models, but because the world has changed substantially, it can be neither of them alone, nor a hybrid of the two models without significant expansion and refinement. The principles espoused by Malthus and Boserup can thus be used as the starting points in a dialectic argument to arrive at a new agricultural development paradigm. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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