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The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.
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An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. Thomas Malthus. London. Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard 1798. © 1998, Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project. http://www.esp.org.
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confront the dilemma embodied in the population principle, Malthus embarked on a life-long attempt to show that those who attributed human suffering to defective social and political institutions overlooked
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Feb 5, 2018 · For over two hundred years, since the first publication of his book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus' work has been misunderstood and misrepresented, and severe, alarming predictions have been attached to his name.
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Feb 5, 2018 · In the last Teacher's Corner, we saw how badly Thomas Robert Malthus' arguments in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1826, first pub. 1798), have been misunderstood and misrepresented by detractors from his own day and ours.
Apr 21, 2021 · The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798 through J. Johnson (London). The author was soon identified as The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. While it was not the first book on population, it has been acknowledged as the most influential work of its era.
