An Essay on the Principle of Population
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An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus
The world's population is now 7.4 billion people. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity's positive trends, Thomas Malthus's pessimism is worth full reconsideration.
Joyce E. Chaplin is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island and in a maritime studies program in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730–1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676 (2001), The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), and Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781324000556 |
| ISBN 10 | 1324000554 |
| Title | An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| Author | Thomas Robert Malthus |
| Series | Norton Critical Editions |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2017-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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