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Buy An Essay on the Principle of Population by Malthus, Thomas (ISBN: 9781846373947) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.The Population ProblemTwo hundred years ago, Thomas Malthus, in An Essay on the Principle ofPopulation, reached the conclusion that the number of people in the world willincrease exponentially, while the ability to feed these people will onlyincrease arithmetically (21).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.The book predicted a grim future, as population would increase geometrically, doubling every 25 years, but food production would only grow arithmetically, which would result in famine and starvation, unless births were controlled.
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.An Essay on the Principle of Population. Thomas Robert Malthus. Publisher Description. Following his success with his work on population, Malthus published often from his economics position on the faculty at the East India College at Haileybury. He was not only respected in his time by contemporaneous intellectuals for his clarity of thought and willingness to focus on the evidence at hand.
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