Malthus: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' / Edition 1

by T. R. Malthus, Donald Winch

Overview

This book provides a student audience with the best 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 new edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521429726
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/28/1992
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Acknowledgements and notes on the text; Principle events in the life of Robert Malthus; Biographical notes; Guide to further reading; Essay on the Principle of Population; Index.