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Internet Archive. Language. English. v, 320 pages 22 cm. An investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions.--A letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P., on his proposed bill for the amendment of the poor laws.--A letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Grenville, occasioned by some observations of His Lordship on the East India Company's ...
May 16, 2024 · Thomas Malthus, English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. This thinking is commonly referred to as Malthusianism.
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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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Thomas Robert Malthus. 5.00. 2 ratings0 reviews. This collection includes all of Malthus' pamphlet essays on rent theory, inflation, the corn laws and educational policy among which are An Investigation of the Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions (1800), A Letter to Samuel Whitbread ... on the Poor Laws (1807), Observations on the ...
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Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (/ ˈ m æ l θ ə s /; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
An investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions.--A letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P., on his proposed bill for the amendment of the poor laws.--A letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Grenville, occasioned by some observations of His Lordship on the East India Company's establishment for the education of their civil servants.--Observations on the effects of the corn laws ...
l. m. n. o. p. q. r. s. t. u. v. w. x. y. z. Thomas Malthus, c.1820 © English economist Malthus is best known for his hugely influential theories on population growth. Thomas Robert...
