T. R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

by T. R. Malthus , Edited by Patricia James

• ISBN13: 9780521071321
• ISBN10: 0521071321
• Edition: 1st
• 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 II

Re-written Chapters [1806] 4. (b) On the fruitfulness of Marriages 6. (b) Effects of Epidemics on Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Re-written Chapters [1817]

Of the Agricultural System

Of the Commercial System

Of Systems of Agriculture and Commerce combined

Of Corn Laws. Bounties upon Exportation

Of Corn Laws. Restrictions upon Importation

Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor

Of our future Prospects respecting the Removal or Mitigation of the Evils arising from the Principle of Population

Of moral restraint, and the foundations of our obligation to practise this virtue

Of the Effects which would result to Society from the general practice of this virtue

Of the only effectual mode of improving the condition of the poor

Objections to this mode considered

Of the consequences of pursuing the opposite mode

Effects of the knowledge of the principal cause of poverty on Civil Liberty

Of the consequences of pursuing the opposite mode

Effects of the knowledge of the principal cause of poverty on Civil Liberty

Continuation of the same subject [Added 1817]

Plan of the gradual abolition of the Poor Laws proposed

Of the modes of correcting the prevailing opinions on the subject of Population

Of the direction of our charity

Of the errors in different plans which have been proposed, to improve the condition of the Poor

Continuation of the same subject [Added 1817]

Of the necessity of general principles on this subject

Of our rational expectations respecting the future improvement of Society

Appendices, 1806, 1817

Note 1825

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