Malthus' preconditions to moral restraint and modern population economics.
The author examines the writings of Malthus and compares them with basic tenets of two modern economic approaches to fertility studies.  It is suggested that "Leibenstein and Easterlin, on the one hand, base their arguments on the central role of aspirations and of relative income or status, whether it be that of the parents or of the friends and neighbors.  We argue that aspirations and relative income effects are quite close to Malthus' ideas on 'forward looking' and self respect.  The other modern economic approach to fertility studies, the Chicago school, is centered on the effect of human capital on consumption and fertility decisions, and we think that this idea was not too strange to Malthus when he emphasized foresight and the desire for knowledge." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND ITA)
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