Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent 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 edition is intended...

This volume comprises a collection of manuscripts by or relating to T.R. Malthus--recently discovered and previously unpublished--consisting of correspondence, sermons, essays and lecture notes on political economy and history. The manuscripts provide insights into Malthus' personal life--especially his relationships with his parents and his tutors, and also suggest hitherto unknown influences on his intellectual development. They represent a remarkable discovery, more than 150 years after Malthus' death.

Discovered in the estate of a distant nephew, and previously unpublished, this book is the second of two volumes comprising a collection of manuscripts by or relating to T.R. Malthus. The texts consist of correspondence, sermons, essays and lecture notes on political economy and history.

As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthus's simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankind's demographic and ecological prospects.

Resulting from discussions with his father on the works of Condorcet and William Godwin, Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) published anonymously in 1798 his first and most famous work. Written as a polite attack on French post-revolutionary speculations on social and human perfectibility, this remains one of the most powerful statements of the limits to human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources. Central to his philosophy was the belief that 'The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man'. The...

"An Essay on the Principle of Population" from Thomas Robert Malthus. British cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography (1766-1834).

"Nature and Progress of Rent" from Thomas Robert Malthus. British cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography (1766-1834).

"Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws" from Thomas Robert Malthus. British cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography (1766-1834).

"The Grounds of an Opinion" from Thomas Robert Malthus. British cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography (1766-1834).

- An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin - Malthus'sEssay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). - An unusually rich selection of supporting materials thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics includ "Influences on Malthus," "Economics, Population, and Ethics after Malthus," "Malthus and Global Challenges," and "Malthusianism in Fiction. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.