William Godwin and Thomas Robert Malthus
William Godwin and Thomas Robert Malthus

Author: David Reisman

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2024-10-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783031621123

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This book explores the lifelong dialogue between Thomas Robert Malthus and the libertarian anarchist William Godwin. Shedding light on important topics in the history of economic and political thought, it examines Godwin’s rejection of the new industrial order and his insights into a post-acquisitive, post-conflictual future. It shows that Malthus felt Godwin had neglected the ever-increasing pressure of population on scarce food and that control could not be superseded by automaticity so long as the productivity of the land was limited by the law of nature. Godwin and Malthus situated their views on population in the broader context of individual choice, property rights, normative constraint and the status of the poor. This book highlights Godwin and Malthus’ commitment to an economy that is equitable and efficient, making their ideas relevant to contemporary debates, and sheds light on two giant thinkers of the past.

Progress, Poverty and Population
Progress, Poverty and Population

Author: John Avery

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1135249628

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This work traces the history of a debate which took place among the economists, political philosophers and writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, about whether the benefits of scientific progress would be nullified by the growth of the global population.

An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population

Author: Thomas Robert Malthus

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780192837479

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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
An Essay on the Principle of Population

Author: Thomas Robert Malthus

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 0300177410

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A new edition of the authoritative 1803 version of Malthus's work together with critical essays exploring its influence in political, social, economic, and literary thought

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

Author: Thomas Robert Malthus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0393623513

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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, as it Affects the Future Imporvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers
An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Imporvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers

Author: Thomas Robert Malthus

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1584777281

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Reprint of the very rare first edition. One of the most influential works on political economy, it had a profound effect on social policy during the nineteenth century, especially on the development of harsher poor laws in Great Britain. (It was the guiding spirit behind the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.) The central point of the Essay is that population increases geometrically while food supplies increase arithmetically, which will eventually lead to starvation and disease in the poorest sections of the community. In order to prevent this from happening, he posits, people, especially the poor, should have children later in life and limit the size of their families.

An Essay on the Principle of Population (Norton Critical Editions)
An Essay on the Principle of Population (Norton Critical Editions)

Author: Thomas Robert Malthus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1324000805

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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.

Malthus
Malthus

Author: Robert J. Mayhew

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0674728718

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Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns.

Malthus: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'
Malthus: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'

Author: Thomas Robert Malthus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-08-28

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780521429726

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This 1992 volume makes available to a student audience one of the most controversial and misunderstood works published during the last two hundred years. Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population began life in 1798 as a polite attack on some 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. This edition is based on the authoritative variorum of the mature versions of the Essay published over the period 1803 to 1826. The introduction, notes and bibliographic apparatus are aimed specifically at a modern audience interested in how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.