Sunday, July 18th, 2004

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1:51a	читая Мальтуса It very rarely happens that the nominal price of labour universally falls, but we well know that it frequently remains the same, while the nominal price of provisions has been gradually increasing. This is, in effect, a real fall in the price of labour, and during this period the condition of the lower orders of the community must gradually grow worse and worse. But the farmers and capitalists are growing rich from the real cheapness of labour. Their increased capitals enable them to employ a greater number of men. Work therefore may be plentiful, and the price of labour would consequently rise. But the want of freedom in the market of labour, which occurs more or less in all communities, either from parish laws, or the more general cause of the facility of combination among the rich, and its difficulty among the poor, operates to prevent the price of labour from rising at the natural period, and keeps it down some time longer; perhaps till a year of scarcity, when the clamour is too loud and the necessity too apparent to be resisted. Вот и описание того, что проиходит сегодня в Америке. Два века как с куста - ничего не изменилось. Разве что вместо приходских законов - корпоративные. (Comment on this)
2:11a	читая Мальтуса 1 It is said that the passion between the sexes is less ardent among the North American Indians than among any other race of men. Yet, notwithstanding this apathy, the effort towards population, even in this people, seems to be always greater than the means to support it. This appears from the comparatively rapid population that takes place whenever any of the tribes happen to settle in some fertile spot and to draw nourishment from more fruitful sources than that of hunting, and it has been frequently remarked that when an Indian family has taken up its abode near any European settlement and adopted a more easy and civilized mode of life, that one woman has reared five, or six, or more children, though in the savage state it rarely happens that above one or two in a family grow up to maturity. /.../ 2 The North American Indians, considered as a people, cannot justly be called free and equal. In all the accounts we have of them, and, indeed, of most other savage nations, the women are represented as much more completely in a state of slavery to the men than the poor are to the rich in civilized countries. One half the nation appears to act as Helots to the other half, and the misery that checks population falls chiefly, as it always must do, upon that part whose condition is lowest in the scale of society. The infancy of man in the simplest state requires considerable attention, but this necessary attention the women cannot give, condemned as they are to the inconveniences and hardships of frequent change of place and to the constant and unremitting drudgery of preparing every thing for the reception of their tyrannic lords. An Essay on the Principle of Population ch.3 1798 Из века в век одно и то же. В нашем отношении современная версия англо-саксонской брехни выглядела так: 1 В СССР секса нет. 2 Гулаг. Женщины в СССР не свободны. (4 Comments | Comment on this)
7:09p	ich haеtte gern einen Isba, bitte Чего только на свете не бывает: ...Они рубят дома из брёвен, на своём участке собирают сруб, подгоняя бревна друг к другу. Затем их нумеруют, разбирают сруб и везут в Германию или Норвегию, где уже ставят сруб заказчику. Там такие дома модны, мол жить в бревенчатых домах полезнее для здоровья. Если в Германии щели между бревнами они заделывают какой-то синтетикой, а крышу кроют стандартной черепицей, то в Норвегии для полной экологичности между бревнами кладут сушеный мох (есть у них фирма, его выращивающая), а на крышу используют дёрн (!!). Интересно, что у них человек 50 рабочих, из которых четверо - кандидаты наук, бывшие советские научные сотрудники, а сам этот человек в своей прошлой советской жизни был тренером заводской футбольной команды. http://www.livejournal.com/users/aabad/14449.html (14 Comments | Comment on this)
9:59p	биография Т. Мальтуса Вот он, Ванька-Встанька социалдарвинизма. Thomas Robert Malthus was born in 1766, at Dorking, a place just south of London. He was the second son of eight children, six of whom were girls. His father, Daniel Malthus, was an ardent Jacobin and had corresponded with Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume; indeed, when Malthus was but a child, Hume brought Rousseau to the Malthus home, known then as "The Rookery." As a boy, Robert was educated privately, partly by his father and partly by tutors. At the age of eighteen, in 1784, Malthus went up to Cambridge (Jesus College). In spite of a "marked impediment of speech," Malthus was to do well. While at College, Malthus "took orders" thus becoming a curate of the Church of England. At about 1796, he took up parochial duties "at Albury, Surrey, and lived with his father Daniel ..." At the age of 38, he married, an event which led him, in that year, 1804, to leave the safe haven of his "fellowship" at Cambridge. His marriage turned out to be a happy one; he had three children. In 1805, he was appointed professor of Political Economy at the college at Haileybury, a college run by and for the general education of civil servants of the East India Company. He lived the balance of his life placidly existing as a scholar and teacher at Haileybury. His students called him "Pop." He was described in his obituary as a "tall and elegantly formed ... his appearance, no less than his conduct, was that of a perfect gentleman." "An amiable and benevolent man." Despite this eloquent description, Malthus was to suffer "much misrepresentation and abuse at the hands of both revolutionaries and conservatives." (Comment on this)
11:05p	Дарвин о Мальтусе (1766-1834) In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic inquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long- continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The results of this would be the formation of a new species. Here, then I had at last got a theory by which to work. Charles Darwin, autobiography 1876 Кто занимается наукой, сразу поймет, что это весьма порочная методология. (Comment on this)

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