...out long before Keynes that "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments,...them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundent population. In those countries where the laboring classes have the fewest wants and arc...

...expanding capitalist society with full employment. David Ricardo pointed out long before Keyues that "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated...

...to endeavour to raise the standard. Ricardo in the second edition (1819) of his Principles says, " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...all legal means in their exertions to procure them " (2nd ed. p. 95, chap, v, middle). The lowness of Irish wages as compared with English was attributed...

...should itself be raised by upward changes in the latter. Of this he wrote (in his second edition): "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...cannot be a better security against a superabundant population."f Despite this, however, the more general or likely picture as • Wealth of Nations, p....

...werden könnte (siehe Bl.Ai'O [1962], S. 6). 13 MALTHUS (1798). S. 7. 14 MALTHUS (1798), S. 347. manity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...cannot be a better security against a superabundant population."15 Steigende Ansprüche und Bedürfnisse sollen gefördert werden, nicht um die individuelle...

...this enterprise. Reviewing that list at the end, I stopped with this statement of Davi'" Ricardo's: "[T]he friends of humanity cannot but wish that in...should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a...

...already cultivated, the latter remedy is neither very practicable nor very desirable, because its effects would be, if pushed very far, to render all classes...better security against a superabundant population. And then, in all editions, the argument thus runs on : — In those countries, where the labouring...

...that wages, as an historical category, rise above subsistence. Further the oft-quoted passages, that "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...better security against a superabundant population", 19 sounds almost realistic enough to repudiate Ricardo's adherence to the "Iron Law of Wages." The...

...2. That RICARDO would have subscribed to this analysis is clear from his famous pronouncement that 'the friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments . . . There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population' [l95l, l, p. l00]. 3. MALTHUS...

...classes. In the main this must take the form of self-help in the direction of a higher standard of life: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated...