Malthus: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'

This 1992 book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population.

T. R. Malthus (Author), Donald Winch (Edited by)

9780521419543, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 August 1992

430 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.69 kg

This 1992 volume makes available to a student audience one of the most controversial and misunderstood works published during the last two hundred years. Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population began life in 1798 as a polite attack on some 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. This edition is based on the authoritative variorum of the mature versions of the Essay published over the period 1803 to 1826. The introduction, notes and bibliographic apparatus are aimed specifically at a modern audience interested in how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.

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.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]