Cremaschi, Sergio - In: The Journal of Philosophical Economics 3 (2010) 2, pp. 5-57
This paper discusses, first, the kind of Newtonian methodology Malthus had been exposed to at Cambridge; secondly, the views on algebra and the doctrine of proportions he inherited from MacLaurin and the contribution of his colleague Bewick Bewin in devising a special role for this doctrine in...