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Population: the first essay. by. Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834. Publication date. 1959. Topics. Population, Population, Economie, Bevolking, Population Growth, Population Dynamics. Publisher.
In the United States of America, where the means of subsistence have been more ample, the manners of the people more pure, and consequently the checks to early marriages fewer, than in any of the modern states of Europe, the population has been found to double itself in twenty-five years.
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Feb 5, 2018 · The Essay on the Principle of Population, which I published in 1798, was suggested, as is expressed in the preface, by a paper in Mr. Godwin’s Inquirer. It was written on the impulse of the occasion, and from the few materials which were then within my reach in a country situation.
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Series editors RAYMOND GEUSS Professor of Political Science, Columbia University QUENTIN SKINNER Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge This series will make available to students the most important texts required for an understanding of the history of political thought. The scholarship of the present generation has greatly e...
Malthus made no claim to originality so far as his basic principle was concerned. That population depends on the availability of subsistence, and will respond to changes in that availability, was an eighteenth-century commonplace, with David Hume, Adam Smith, and Robert Wallace being the figures to whom Malthus gave most credit for his own initial ...
Striking a balance between negative and positive forces, defining the golden mean in both private and public conduct, characterizes much of Malthus's thinking as a political moralist. The population principle served a negative polemical purpose - more prominent in the first edition of the Essay - in denying that Godwin's (in some ways) appealing vi...
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Books. Population: The First Essay. Thomas Robert Malthus. University of Michigan Press, 1959 - Business & Economics - 139 pages. Malthus's classic prescription for the problem of...
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This is the first edition of Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population. In this work Malthus argues that there is a disparity between the rate of growth of population (which increases geometrically) and the rate of growth of agriculture (which increases only arithmetically).
