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"Victorian studies scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin's writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. 'Marking time', edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century. The volume's contributors revisit key developments in the history of evolution prior to 'On the origin of species' and explore British and European Romanticism's negotiation between the classic idea of a great immutable chain of being and modern notions of historical change. 'Marking time' reveals how Romantic and post-Romantic configurations of historical, socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical transformation continue to exert a profound influence on critical and cultural thought."--The dustjacket

Evolution (Biology) --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Philosophy. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century . --- Literature --- Charles Darwin --- Evolution --- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling --- Immanuel Kant --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --- Thomas Robert Malthus

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Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to overpopulation, the exhaustion of arable land and the deficiency of effective demand. Malthus relied on historical and empirical evidence in the spirit of Bacon and Hume, but also backed up his data with a priori hypotheses that link him to his contemporary, David Ricardo. Malthus was strongly in favour of free trade, the minimal State, the gold standard and the abolition of poverty relief. Always a pragmatist, however, he was just as much in favour of public education, contra-cyclical public works and a safety net of tariffs and bounties to encourage national self-sufficiency with regard to food. He was both an economist and a clergyman and saw the two roles as interconnected. Malthus believed that a benevolent Deity had created vice and misery in order to shake human beings out of their natural indolence that would otherwise have condemned them to still greater distress. This title provides a clear and comprehensive examination of Malthus’s economic and social thought. It will be of interest to students and scholars alike. David Reisman is Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Surrey, UK, and Senior Associate, Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Reisman has also published James Buchanan and James Edward Meade within Palgrave Macmillan’s series Great Thinkers in Economics.

Malthus, T. R. --- Malthus, Thomas Robert, --- Malʹtus, Tomas Robert, --- Ma-êrh-sa-ssŭ, --- Malthus, Robert, --- Author of the Essay on the principle of population, --- Marasasu, --- Essay on the principle of population, Author of the, --- מלתוס, תומס רוברט, --- Economic history. --- Population. --- Welfare economics. --- Public finance. --- Agricultural economics. --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology. --- Population Economics. --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. --- Economic History. --- Public Economics. --- Agricultural Economics. --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Agriculture --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Social policy --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Demography --- Malthusianism --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economic aspects --- Public finances --- Population --- Malthus, Thomas Robert, - 1766-1834