Malthus: 'an Essay on the Principle of Population' (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521429726)

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.

Author: T. R. Malthus
ISBN-10: 0521429722
ISBN-13: 9780521429726
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/1992
Pages: 430
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.49w x 1.03d