Chapter I. Pre-Eighteenth-Century Population Theory -- II. The Neomercantilists and the Agrarians -- III. The Repopulationists -- IV. Cantillon and the theory of Luxury -- V. Quesnay and the Physiocrats -- VI. The Philospphes -- VII. The Nonphysiocratic Economists -- VIII. THe Extreme Antiphysiocrats -- IX. Conclusions and Interpretation