An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness, with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions

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Cambridge University Press, 1989 - Business & Economics - 397 pages
This book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. Written in 1798 as a polite attack on post-French revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human perfectibility, it remains one of the most powerful statements of the limits to human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources. Based on the authoritative variorum edition of the versions of the Essay published between 1803 and 1826, and complete with full introduction and bibliographic apparatus, this new edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought. Based on Malthus's second edition of 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' published in 1803, which established the author's reputation as a population theorist and political economist.
 

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REWRITTEN CHAPTERS 1806
1
vib Effects of Epidemics on Registers of Births Deaths
19
Book IV
78
Of our future Prospects respecting the Removal or Mitigation of the
87
of the direction of our charity
156
Continuation of the same Subject Added 1817
175
Malthuss Appendices 1806
204
Note 1825
252
A Note on the Original Indexes
358
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