Free Download The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9VYR5NT | 2023 | 8 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Deborah Valenze
Narrator: Suzanne Toren
With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production. Valenze returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the ways that people adapted to the challenges of subsistence needs.