An Essay on the Principle of Population: Influences on Malthus

An Essay on the Principle of Population: Influences on Malthus Selections from Malthus' Work Nineteenth-Century Comment Malthus in the Twenty-First Century (Norton Critical Editions)

While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the worldâ€™s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.
In many countries, supplies of food and water are inadequate to support the population, so the world falls deeper and deeper into what economists call the â€œMalthusian trap,â€ named for the writer whose work, more than any other, brought attention to the population dilemma. Philip Applemanâ€™s comprehensive introduction to Thomas Robert Malthusâ€™ seminal 1798 work traces the evolution of Malthusâ€™ idea and its validity through following generations.

The text is accompanied by explanatory annotations and excerpts from the revised edition (1803). Key eighteenth-century influences on Malthus are reprinted, including one by Benjamin Franklin.

Nine major assessments from the nineteenth century are reprinted, includingâ€•new to the Second Editionâ€•those of Frances Pace and Harriet Martineau.

Contemporary commentary ranges widely through many schools of thought, from Lester R. Brown, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, and Garrett Hardin to Julian Simon and Pope Paul VI. All but one of the twenty-four selections are new to the Second Edition.

A Selected Readings list and Index are included.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W W Norton & Co Inc
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2003-07-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393924107

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W W Norton & Co Inc
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2003-07-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393924107

An Essay on the Principle of Population: Influences on Malthus Selections from Malthus' Work Nineteenth-Century Comment Malthus in the Twenty-First Century (Norton Critical Editions)

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