Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread md7148
Louis Proyect wrote: Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and Finance", Lou, I agree with the rest of your

Re: Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Mine: Lou, I agree with the rest of your post. I should, however, open a small paranthesis that I don't frankly think that comrade Mark has Marx's critique of Malthus in his mind when he defends Bartlett, since Bartlett, is not a Marxist. The problem is that most, if not all, of the empirical

Re: Re: Malthus revisited (fwd)

2000-06-28 Thread Bill Burgess
At 08:07 AM 28/06/00 -0400, Louis wrote: Can the capitalist system resolve these [ecological] problems? This is a theoretical question that has challenged a wide variety of thinkers. David Harvey's new book "Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference" argues that it can. Harvey does

Malthus revisited

2000-06-27 Thread Louis Proyect
Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and Finance", specifically chapter two on "Marx, Malthus, and the Concept of

Re: Malthus revisited

2000-06-27 Thread Sam Pawlett
Louis Proyect wrote: Mark Jones' alleged raising of the overpopulation question leads us once again into a discussion of the Marxist critique of Malthus. I would refer PEN-L'ers to Michael Perelman's "Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor and Finance", specifically chapter two on "Marx,