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Regional variants. Related topics. Liberalism portal. Politics portal. v. t. e. Thomas Robert Malthus FRS ( / ˈmælθəs /; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) [1] was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
Jul 5, 2021 · The anonymous translation of Werther that was published by James Dodsley (1724-1797) in 1779 has been attributed to both Daniel Malthus (1730-1800) and Richard Graves (1715-1804).
- Tom Baynes
- 2021
Jun 6, 2021 · Abstract. This article challenges the widely held assumption that Thomas Robert Malthus was a lonely pessimist in the late eighteenth century. Interpreting the sources that Malthus had used to write his Essay on the Principle of Population as predictions of the future, the article argues that Malthus inherited a sense of looming doom from his ...
- Lina Weber
- 2021
The first English version, by Daniel Malthus, was published in 1779 as The Sorrows of Werter, using the French text, rather than Goethe's original, as its base. It is not therefore a strict translation, but since presumably the Creature reads this novel in its French adaptation, this is the version included in this hypertext edition .
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with his father, Daniel Malthus, on the general question of the future improvement of society after reading Godwin s essay Of Avarice and Profusion (1797). Malthus responded in detail not to this short commentary on avarice and profusion but to Godwin s longer work, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its In uence on
Jan 10, 2017 · This paper examines the Delessert network's instrumental role in cultivating, curating, and circulating knowledge that popularized Malthusian population theory, including the theory's...
Daniel Malthus (1651-1717) served as apothecary to Queen Anne and George I and was the great-grandfather of the political economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus Reference: J. M. Pullen, ‘Malthus, (Thomas) Robert (1766–1834)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 ...
