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Linner traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Boergstroem, labelled 'neo-Malthusians' for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits.
Food supply. --- Malthusianism. --- Scarcity. --- Overpopulation. --- Malthus --- scarcity --- technology --- sustainability --- population
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A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics.
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Linner traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Boergstroem, labelled 'neo-Malthusians' for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits.
Food supply. --- Malthusianism. --- Scarcity. --- Overpopulation. --- Population explosion --- Population --- Deficiency --- Shortages --- Eugenics --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Malthus --- scarcity --- technology --- sustainability --- population
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This book is inspired by the author’s work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: “What If-On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.” Having contributed to great discoveries, such as those by Galileo and Einstein, thought experiments are especially topical in the twenty-first century, since this is a concept that bridges the gap between the arts and the sciences, promoting interdisciplinary innovation. To study thought experiments in literature, it is imperative to examine relevant texts closely: this has rarely been done to date and this is precisely what this book does as a pilot study focusing on selected works of philosophy and literature. Specifically, thought experiments by Thomas Malthus are analyzed side by side with short stories and novels by Vladimir Odoevsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Alexander Bogdanov and Aleksei Tolstoy, Alexander Chaianov and Nina Berberova.
Dystopias in literature. --- Future, The, in literature. --- Russian literature --- Thought experiments. --- Utopias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Malthus, T. R. --- Influence. --- Epistemology, Thought experiments, Counterfactual writing, Utopia, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Thomas Malthus (population theory), Ernst Mach, Modern Russian Literature, Modality in literature.
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual history. Showing how ideologies of infinite desire and infinite growth came to dominate capitalist societies, they argue for alternative modes of economic thought that respect nature's boundaries in the face of climate crisis.
Scarcity --- Capitalism --- Europe --- Economic policy. --- Intellectual life. --- agriculture. --- anthropocene. --- climate change. --- consumer culture. --- cornucopianism. --- environmentalism. --- fossil fuel. --- future. --- global warming. --- great acceleration. --- industrialization. --- malthus. --- mass extinction. --- natural resources. --- neoclassical. --- planetary. --- utopian.
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