An Essay on the Principle of Population,9780521071345

An Essay on the Principle of Population

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780521071345
ISBN10: 0521071348
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-09-04
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent 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 edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought, and how the author's reputation as a population theorist and political economist was established.

Table of Contents

Volume I
Of the Checks to Population in the less civilized Parts of the World, and in Past Times
Statement of the Subject
Ratios of the Increase of Population and Food
Of the general Checks to Population, and the Mode of their Operation
Of the Checks to Population in the lowest Stage of Human Society
Of the Checks to Population among the American Indians
Of the Checks to Population in the Islands of the South Sea
Of the Checks to Population among the ancient Inhabitants of the North of Europe
Of the Checks to Population among modern Pastoral Nations
Of the Checks to Population in different Parts of Africa
Of the Checks to Population in Siberia, Northern and Southern
Of the Checks to Population in the Turkish Dominions and Persia
Of the Checks to Population in Indostan and Tibet
Of the Checks to Population in China and Japan
Of the Checks to Population among the Greeks
Of the Checks to Population among the Romans
Of the Checks to Population in the different States of Modern Europe
Of the Checks to Population in Norway
Of the Checks to Population in Sweden
Of the Checks to Population in Russia
(a) On the fruitfulness of Marriages [1803]
Of the Checks to Population in the middle parts of Europe
(a) Effects of Epidemics on Tables of Mortality [1803]
Of the Checks to Population in Switzerland
Of the Checks to Population in France
Of the Checks to Population in France (continued) [Added 1817]
Of the Checks to Population in England
Of the Checks to Population in England (continued) [Added 1817]
Of the Checks to Population in Scotland and Ireland
General deductions from the preceding view of Society
Of the different Systems of Expedients which have been proposed or have prevailed in Society, as they affect the Evils arising from the Principle of Population
Of Systems of Equality. Wallace. Condorcet
Of Systems of Equality. Godwin
Observations on the Reply of Mr Godwin [1803]
Of Systems of Equality (continued) [Substituted 1817]
Of Emigration
Of the English Poor Laws
Subject of Poor Laws continued
Of Poor-Laws, continued [Added 1817]
Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor
Of the Definitions of Wealth. Agricultural and Commercial Systems [1803]
Different Effects of the Agricultural and Commercial Systems
Of Bounties on the Exportation of Corn
Of the principal Sources of the prevailing Errors on the Subject of Population
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