Author(s): Thomas Robert Malthus; Philip Appleman (Editor)

Philosophy

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 Frances Pace and Harriet Martineau Contemporary commentary ranges widely through many schools of thought, from Lester R. Brown, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, and Garrett Hardin to Julian Simon and Pope Paul VI. All but one of the twenty-four selections are new to the Second Edition A Selected Readings list and Index are included.