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
An Essay on the Principle of Population

Author: T. R. Malthus

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0486115771

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The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources.

The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

Author: Alison Bashford

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0691177910

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This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas.