Thomas Malthus’s Rhetorical Political Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22248641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Longaker (0000-0002-8229-8968, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-172 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the History of Rhetoric (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2687-8003 • E-ISSN: 2687-8011 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/26878003.2020.1756979 |
| OpenAlex | W3046126530 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
David Ricardo and his followers forged rational argumentation and empirical verification into the discipline of classical political economy. Thomas Malthus distinguished his own view of the discipline from Ricardian social science by prudentially applying his rationally derived and empirically verified models to complex historical circumstances. He theorized this addition in the second edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population, refined it in his Principles of Political Economy, and he practiced prudential argumentation in his arguments about the corn laws (1814–15). This Malthusian political economy is rhetorical in two senses of the word. First, Malthus inserted prudence (a virtue associated with rhetoric since antiquity) into political economy. Second, by appealing to people’s lived experiences, Malthus made political economy popularly persuasive
Economics · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Theology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics
From the Corn Laws to Free Trade
History of Economic Analysis
Genres of the Credit Economy
A Rhetorical Conception of Practical Rationality
Bourgeois Equality
Bourgeois Dignity
Revolution, Economics and Religion
Rhetoric and Marxism
Malthus
On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. Volume I
Against Mechanism
A History of the English Corn Laws
Logic and rhetoric in Malthus's essay on the principle of population , 1798
Chaos of Disciplines
Rhetoric, Risk, and Markets
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |