- Paperback: 430 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (28 Aug 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521429722
- ISBN-13: 978-0521429726
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.9 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This 1992 volume makes available to a student audience one of the most controversial and misunderstood works published during the last two hundred years. Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population began life in 1798 as a polite attack on some 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 resources. This edition is based on the authoritative variorum of the mature versions of the Essay published over the period 1803 to 1826. The introduction, notes and bibliographic apparatus are aimed specifically at a modern audience interested in how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.
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This 1992 book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of 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 resources.
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Well produced re-print. Mathus was a genius and identified the problems that we're still dealing with to this day. We call it 'job seekers allowance'; they called it 'the poor laws'. Same problems ensued. Same political divides prevented any meaningful solution. Reading this should be mandatory for all newly elected MPs.
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This is the second (1803) edition of Malthus' Essay, which is considerably expanded from the first (1798) edition, to the point of being a completely new book. It is truly excellent - well worth your time, even if you have already read the first edition. There is a better edition available than this one though (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). For some incomprehensible reason, the editors ommited chapters 3 through 12 of Book 1, and ALL of Book 2 from this edition. To read the entire Essay, getAn Essay on the Principle of Population - Vol. 1 and An Essay on the Principle of Population - Vol. 2 ... or, get An Essay on the Principle of Population - Vol. 1 for books one and two, and this edition Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) for books 3 and 4. There don't seem to be any one volume editions of the second edition.
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