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Re: Eugenics and egalitarianism
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Anthony Waterman <[log in to unmask]>
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Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:39:27 -0500
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As an occasional student of Malthus's work, I should be grateful for an 
exact bibliographic reference to support this contention.

Anthony Waterman



On 23/07/2012 6:59 AM, mason gaffney wrote:
> It seems to me there is a pretty direct genealogy leading from Malthus to Eugenics - and back again!
>
> 1. Malthus rationalized England's stealing of Irish land and turning it over to "the Protestant Ascendancy". The Irish had big families. The world was running short of land.  The only way to stop them was to starve them by raising their rents.
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