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On the Relations Between Domination and the Numbers of Men

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Alfred Sauvy

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Between the numbers of men (or their ‘pressure’) and the domination which is exercised upon them, various relationships exist, the knowledge of which seems to be very useful to an understanding of historical evolution. These relationships are often of so markedly reciprocal a nature that, as against the difficulty of separating cause from effect, it seems preferable to speak simply of accommodation, or even of relative harmony.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , June 1953 , pp. 31 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1 In the absence of a better term, we shall use here the terms ‘malthusian' and anti-malthu sian', in a sense that must not be too strictly equated with the Reverend Malthus' doctrines. These words seem preferable to the ponderous ‘populationist' and especially ‘anti-popula tionist'.

2 'I have never been forgiven for having shown… that the lot of a horse, well fed, well groomed, well protected from the inclemencies of weather, treated for his sickness, is pre ferable to that of the free workman.' (Annales politiques, I.)

3 Appel des étrangers dans nos colonies, 1763. Principes politiquessurle rappel des protestants en France, 1769. Police pour les mendiants, 1769.

4 We are obliged here as elsewhere to pass rapidly over propositions of which more complete demonstrations have been given in our Théorie generale de la population, Vol. I, Économie et population.

5 Astonishing as it may seem, this question of the orientation of consumption, essential to any economy, has really held the attention of only three men in three centuries: Cantillon in the eighteenth, Effertz in the nineteenth, and Landry in the twentieth.

6 This token figure may naturally vary with the fertility of the land.

7 Townsend, A Dissertation on the Poor Laws, 1786, p. 25.

8 L. Chevalier, Le problème demographique de l'Afrique du Nord.

9 The purest of Marxists do not hesitate to oppose immigration, from which they fear a debasement of wages.

10 Milbank Memorial Fund, Demographic Studies of Selected Areas of Rapid Growth, Proceedings of the Round Table on Population Problems (New York, 1944), P. 156.

11 Ibid., p. 150.