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An Essay on the Principle of Population - Text, Sources and Background, Criticism by Thomas Robert Malthus; Philip Appleman (Editor)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations and excerpts from the revised edition (1803). Key eighteenth-century influences on Malthus are reprinted, including one by Benjamin Franklin Nine major assessments from the nineteenth century are reprinted, including--new to the Second Edition--those of ...Show more
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings by Thomas Malthus
Category: Non-Fiction
Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by ...Show more
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