An Essay on the Principle of Population

by T. R. Malthus , Edited by Patricia James

• ISBN13: 9780521071345
• ISBN10: 0521071348
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 resources. Based on the authoritative variorum edition of the versions of the Essay published between 1803 and 1826, and complete with full introduction and bibliographic apparatus, this edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought, and how the author's reputation as a population theorist and political economist was established.

Table of Contents

Volume I

Of the Checks to Population in the less civilized Parts of the World, and in Past Times

Statement of the Subject

Ratios of the Increase of Population and Food

Of the general Checks to Population, and the Mode of their Operation

Of the Checks to Population in the lowest Stage of Human Society

Of the Checks to Population among the American Indians

Of the Checks to Population in the Islands of the South Sea

Of the Checks to Population among the ancient Inhabitants of the North of Europe

Of the Checks to Population among modern Pastoral Nations

Of the Checks to Population in different Parts of Africa

Of the Checks to Population in Siberia, Northern and Southern

Of the Checks to Population in the Turkish Dominions and Persia

Of the Checks to Population in Indostan and Tibet

Of the Checks to Population in China and Japan

Of the Checks to Population among the Greeks

Of the Checks to Population among the Romans

Of the Checks to Population in the different States of Modern Europe

Of the Checks to Population in Norway

Of the Checks to Population in Sweden

Of the Checks to Population in Russia

(a) On the fruitfulness of Marriages [1803]

Of the Checks to Population in the middle parts of Europe

(a) Effects of Epidemics on Tables of Mortality [1803]

Of the Checks to Population in Switzerland

Of the Checks to Population in France

Of the Checks to Population in France (continued) [Added 1817]

Of the Checks to Population in England

Of the Checks to Population in England (continued) [Added 1817]

Of the Checks to Population in Scotland and Ireland

General deductions from the preceding view of Society

Of the different Systems of Expedients which have been proposed or have prevailed in Society, as they affect the Evils arising from the Principle of Population

Of Systems of Equality. Wallace. Condorcet

Of Systems of Equality. Godwin

Observations on the Reply of Mr Godwin [1803]

Of Systems of Equality (continued) [Substituted 1817]

Of Emigration

Of the English Poor Laws

Subject of Poor Laws continued

Of Poor-Laws, continued [Added 1817]

Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor

Of the Definitions of Wealth. Agricultural and Commercial Systems [1803]

Different Effects of the Agricultural and Commercial Systems

Of Bounties on the Exportation of Corn

Of the principal Sources of the prevailing Errors on the Subject of Population

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