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Population: the first essay. by. Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834. Publication date. 1959. Topics. Population, Population, Economie, Bevolking, Population Growth, Population Dynamics. Publisher.
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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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Essentially, for the first time, Malthus examined his own Principle of Population on a region-by-region basis of world population. The essay was organized in four books:
13. Nov. 2009 · First published in 1798 under title: An essay on the principle of population
Books. Population: The First Essay. Thomas Robert Malthus. University of Michigan Press, 1959 - Business & Economics - 139 pages. Malthus's classic prescription for the problem of...
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- University of Michigan Press, 1959
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The first Essay draws on simple ethnographic evidence to show that the principle of population operates among North American Indians and the Hottentots, as illustrated by the constant state of war and famine in which they lived, as well as by the hardships endured by their women.
5. Feb. 2018 · Essay on the Principle of Population. The first, published anonymously in 1798, was so successful that Malthus soon elaborated on it under his real name.
