Thomas Robert Malthus

In 1798 initiates a controversy by arguing how a large population may surpass its resources, and how improved economics can lower mortality rates, and also examines how reproduction can dwarf its food production.

An Essay on the Principle of Population

The world’s population is now 7.4 billion people, placing ever greater demands on our natural resources. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity’s positive trends, Malthus’s pessimism is worth full reconsideration. This Norton Critical Edition includes: · An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin. · Malthus’s Essay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). · An unusually rich selection of supporting materials thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include “Influences on Malthus,” “Economics, Population, and Ethics after Malthus,” “Malthus and Global Challenges,” and “Malthusianism in Fiction.” · A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

An Essay on the Principle of Population (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

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An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness

An Essay on the Principle of Population Or a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Hapiness

The Collected Works of Thomas Malthus

This essay by 19th-century economist Thomas Robert Malthus examines the social and economic nature of rent.

Thomas Robert Malthus

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