An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus

An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus

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Summary

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.

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An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus

With the first published version of Malthus’s Essay (1798) are selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). Accompanying the text is an introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin and a rich selection of supporting materials. A chronology and a bibliography are also included.
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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