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Malthus And Scrooge: How Dickens Put A Holly Branch Through The Heart Of Terrible Economics
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Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don t make merry myself at Christmas and I can t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there. Many can t go there; and many would rather die. If they would rather die, said Scrooge, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
That phrase surplus population is what first tipped me off to Dickens philosophical agenda. He s taking aim at the father of the zero-growth philosophy, Thomas Malthus. Malthus ideas were still current in British intellectual life at the time