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Description. A collection of eight volumes of books which contain all the known published writings and variant readings of Thomas Malthus. Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply and his work is seen as the foundation for population studies.
26. Apr. 2016 · The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus’s Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the ...
Thomas Robert Malthus was born to a wealthy family near Surrey, England. His father, the eccentric Daniel Malthus, was friends with both David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Malthus was educated privately at home and, at age 13, began two years of study in residence with Richard Graves, a Protestant minister near Bath. He excelled in history, classics, and fighting. In a letter to Daniel ...
Thomas Malthus, geboren in Surrey, einer Grafschaft südlich von London, britischer Nationalökonom und Sozialphilosoph, war ab 1797 anglikanischer Pfarrer und ab 1806 Professor für Geschichte und politische Ökonomie am Haileybury College. Malthus war der Inhaber des ersten Lehrstuhls für politische Ökonomie in England, der 1805 am College ...
5. Nov. 2012 · We need not trace the heredity of Robert Malthus further back than to the Reverend Robert Malthus who became Vicar of Northolt under Cromwell and was evicted at the Restoration. Calamy calls him ‘an ancient divine, a man of strong reason, and mighty in the Scriptures, of great eloquence and fervour, though defective in elocution’.
The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. Edited By E. A. Wrigley and David Souden. London: Pickering, 1986. 8 vols. £360. - Volume 48 Issue 4
A series of reviews and articles about prices and the controversy over bullion during the wars with France made Malthus’s name as a political economist; the publication in 1815 of his essay on rent (in the same year as Sir Edward West’s work on the same subject) laid the foundations for David Ricardo’s better-known and more finely-honed discussion of the subject; and various aspects of ...
