Neo-Malthusianism in the modern methodology of history

摘要

The current state of the theory of historical science is usually defined as critical, characterized by departure from the search for common schemes in the study of "microhistory." However, the presence of certain economic and demographic regularities is recognized not only by historians but also by economists and politicians. The article published below considers such regularities and the theory that describes them, the topicality of which is determined by the fact that the Malthusian regularities under consideration not only manifested themselves clearly in the epoch of preindustrial society but also play a significant role in the economic life of developing countries.