Brown , Lester R. and Pamela Shaw , Six Steps to a Sustainable Society , Worldwatch Paper 48 ( Washington , DC : Worldwatch Institute , 1982 ) . Brown , Lester R. and Jodi L. Jacobson , Our Demographically Divided World , Worldwatch ...
Of the parish of Dingwall} in the county of Ross, it is observed that, after the scarcity of 1783, the births were 16 below the average, and 14 below the lowest number of late years. The year 1787 was a year of plenty; and the following ...
While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: · An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin. · Malthus’s Essay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he ...
This Norton Critical Edition includes: · An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin. · Malthus’s Essay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he ...
The world's population is now 7.4 billion people, placing ever greater demands on our natural resources. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity's positive trends, Malthus's pessimism is worth full reconsideration.
Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989.
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This book follows that debate, which also involved people such as Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Ricardo, Mill and Darwin.
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An Essay on the Principle of Population (Norton Critical Editions)
This is a replica of the 1826 sixth edition.
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; E. P. Dutton & Co. in London and New York.
This new edition, edited by Philip Appleman, of the classic work contains the text of the original 1798 essay, along with later revisions made by Malthus himself. Background and source materials include such writers as Hume and Adam Smith.
English economist and professor Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834) caused great public controversy among the optimistic positivitists of his day when his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) showed incontrovertibly...
Malthus's simple yet powerful argument was highly controversial in its day.
A new edition of the authoritative 1803 version of Malthus's work together with critical essays exploring its influence in political, social, economic, and literary thought
This new edition of the Essay also includes other writings and diary extracts that show Malthus's intellectual development after his landmark treatise." -- Back of cover.
Essay On The Principle Of Population