Thomas Robert Malthus

As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthus's simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankind's demographic and ecological prospects.

This is the provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control. Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease. He significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and his theories continue to raise important questions today in the fields of social theory, economics and the environment. It comes with an introduction by Robert Mayhew. After graduating from Cambridge, Thomas Malthus settled in Hertfordshire as a lecturer in history and political economy at the East India Company College. Among his many works, An Essay on the Principle of Population was the most successful and most outrageous. He boldly opposed popular Enlightenment ideals of the 18th-century.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth. For most of his life he was professor of modern history and political economy at the East India Company College, Hailey bury. There Malthus developed a theory of demand supply mismatches which he called gluts. Considered ridiculous at the time, his theory was a precursor to later theories about the Great Depression, and to the works of admirer and economist John Maynard Keynes. Malthus is widely regarded as the founder of modern demography.

The book ""Effects of the Corn Laws"" by Thomas Malthus is a historical work that examines the impact of the Corn Laws on the British economy and society. The Corn Laws were a series of tariffs and restrictions on the import and export of grain that were in place in England from 1815 to 1846. Malthus was a prominent economist and scholar who argued that the Corn Laws had a negative impact on the British economy, particularly on the working classes. In this book, he presents a detailed analysis of the economic and social consequences of the Corn Laws, arguing that they led to higher food prices, reduced agricultural productivity, and increased poverty and suffering among the poor. Malthus also explores the political and ideological reasons behind the Corn Laws, arguing that they were motivated by the interests of the landed aristocracy rather than the common good. Overall, ""Effects of the Corn Laws"" is an important work of economic and social history that sheds light on a critical period in British history and the development of modern capitalism.A revision of the corn laws, it is understood, is immediately to come under the consideration of the legislature. That the decision on such a subject, should be founded on a correct and enlightened view of the whole question, will be allowed to be of the utmost importance, both with regard to the stability of the measures to be adopted, and the effects to be expected from them.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Thomas Robert Malthus var en av sin tids store eksperter på befolknings- og ernæringsproblemer, men i denne boken viser han seg ikke som en pessimistisk økonom, men derimot som en elskelig prest med skarp iakttakelsesevne og stor selvstendighet i tankegangen.Hans reisedagbok er utrolig sjarmerende og med mange poengrike detaljer, og skildrer hans reise fra Svinesund, via Halden og Moss til Oslo. Derfra til Kongsberg og Romerike, langs østsiden av Mjøsa, oppover Gudbrandsdalen og over Dovre til Trondheim, der han snudde og la tilbaketuren via Røros og ned gjennom Østerdalen til Kongsvinger.

Malthus's classic prescription for the problem of overpopulation

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This Collection of essays includes four of Thomas Malthus' best-known works:AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATIONTHE NATURE AND PROGRESS OF RENTOBSERVATIONS ON THE EFFECT OF THE CORN LAWSON THE POLICY OF RESTRICING THE IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CORNIncludes an active table of contents.ASIN: B002HEW5QO

Around 1796, Mr. Malthus, an English gentleman, had finished reading a book that confidently predicted human life would continue to grow richer, more comfortable and more secure, and that nothing could stop the march of progress. He discussed this theme with his son, Thomas, and Thomas ardently disagreed with both his father and the book he had been reading, along with the entire idea of unending human progress. Mr. Malthus suggested that he write down his objections so that they could discuss them point-by-point. Not long after, Thomas returned with a rather long essay. His father read it and was so impressed that he urged his son to have it published. And so, in 1798, Thomas Malthus' An Essay on Population appeared. Though it was attacked at the time and ridiculed for many years afterward, it has remained one of the most influential works in the English language on the general checks and balances of the world's population and its necessary control.Volume 1 includes: Book I: "Of the Checks to the Population in the Less Civilised Parts of the World and in Past Times" and Book II: "Of the Checks to the Population in the Different States of Modern Europe."ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO CLASSICS: Malthus' An Essay on Population-Vol. 2THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, born in 1766 and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1798, he was curate at Albury in Surrey, and become Professor History and Political Economy at Haileybury College, 1805. He died in 1834.

Contains the essays:"A Summary View of the Principle of Population" by Thomas Malthus (1830)"World Population" by Julian Huxley (1955)"Population: An International Dilemma" by Frederick Osborn (1960)

The History of Economic Theory features selected essays from influential economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Included are the prominent works of T.R. Malthus, David Ricardo, Frédéric Bastiat, and John Stuart Mill. The integrity of the original essays has been carefully preserved, and no attempt has been made to add further commentary, dialogue, or reasoning to these fine compositions. Res ipsa loquitur. The work speaks for itself.Featured Essays Include:By T.R. Malthus:- An Investigation of the Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions- Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn on the Agriculture and General Wealth of the Country- The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn; Intended as an Appendix to "Observations on the Corn Laws"By David Ricardo:- The High Price of Bullion, a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank NotesBy Frédéric Bastiat:- Essays on Political Economy, Part I: Capital and Interest- Essays on Political Economy, Part II: That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not SeenBy John Stuart Mill:- Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, Essay IV: On Profits, and Interest

Around 1796, Mr. Malthus, an English gentleman, had finished reading a book that confidently predicted human life would continue to grow richer, more comfortable and more secure, and that nothing could stop the march of progress. He discussed this theme with his son, Thomas, and Thomas ardently disagreed with both his father and the book he had been reading, along with the entire idea of unending human progress. Mr. Malthus suggested that he write down his objections so that they could discuss them point-by-point. Not long after, Thomas returned with a rather long essay. His father read it and was so impressed that he urged his son to have it published. And so, in 1798, Thomas Malthus' An Essay on Population appeared. Though it was attacked at the time and ridiculed for many years afterward, it has remained one of the most influential works in the English language on the general checks and balances of the world's population and its necessary control.Volume 2 includes: Book III: "Of the Different Systems, Which Have Been Proposed or Have Prevailed in Society, As They Affect the Evils Arising from The Principle of Population." ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO CLASSICS: Malthus' An Essay on Population - Vol. 1THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, born in 1766 and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1798, he was curate at Albury in Surrey, and become Professor History and Political Economy at Haileybury College, 1805. He died in 1834.

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This collection includes all of Malthus' pamphlet essays on rent theory, inflation, the corn laws and educational policy among which are An Investigation of the Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions (1800), A Letter to Samuel Whitbread ... on the Poor Laws (1807), Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws (1814), Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent (1815), and The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn (1815). "His pamphlets are numerous and celebrated." W.C. Mitchell Types of Economic Theory, I.

Malthus, con la sua visione cupamente pessimistica, ha segnato la storia delle teorie economiche, secondo la quale l'incremento demografico è sempre più rapido di quello dei mezzi di sussistenza, e la povertà è destinata fatalmente a espandersi. Ogni tentativo di alleviare la povertà non fa quindi che aggravare i problemi, impedendo alla miseria e alla degradazione di svolgere la loro "naturale" funzione di controllo delle nascite. Queste tesi così crude ebbero enorme risonanza, e ancor oggi non è impossibile udirne l'eco in alcune delle più estreme teorizzazioni liberistiche. Questo volume raccoglie, oltre all'Esame sommario del principio di popolazione, con il quale Malthus intese presentare, in forma sintetica e divulgativa, i punti principali della sua teoria, altri due scritti, sul rapporto tra povertà, sviluppo economico e legislazione.

The world’s population is now 7.4 billion people, placing ever greater demands on our natural resources. As we stand witness to a possible reversal of modernity’s positive trends, Malthus’s pessimism is worth full reconsideration.This Norton Critical Edition · An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin.· Malthus’s Essay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806).· An unusually rich selection of supporting materials thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include“Influences on Malthus,” “Economics, Population, and Ethics after Malthus,” “Malthus and Global Challenges,” and “Malthusianism in Fiction.”· A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in sociology and social psychology, this textbook looks at the quantitative methodology of social representations research, using empirical and graphical illustrations and data tables.

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This work presents Malthus' further thoughts on the question of value, its definition and its measurement, written largely in response to Samuel Bailey's Critical Dissertation on that subject. "Remains significant as an early contribution to the methodology of economics ... repays consideration in times of terminological confusion." The New Palgrave . "The standard work of the genus ... it contains one of the best criticims of Ricardo's theoretical set-up ever written." J.A. Schumpeter History of Economic Analysis

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Thomas Robert Malthus räknas som en av de mest inflytelserika klassiska ekonomerna. I sin berömda "En avhandling om befolkningslagen" (1798) - som hjälpte Charles Darwin att formulera teorin om det naturliga urvalet - tecknar han en dyster bild av framtiden. Befolkningen ökar med förbättrad levnadsstandard, men näringsutrymmet kan inte hålla jämn takt med befolkningstillväxten eftersom den odlingsbara arealen är begränsad och avkastningen avtagande när ytterligare - mindre lämpad - mark tas i bruk. Till slut nås en punkt då livsmedelsproduktionen inte länge räcker till för att livnära den växande befolkningen.Malthus befolkningsteori slog fel som prognos för utvecklingen i den industrialiserade världen, men den har haft stor betydelse för tolkningen av den förindustriella ekonomiska historien och även för diskussionen om vår tids globala befolkningsutveckling. Med dagens nymalthusianism har perspektivet vidgats till att inte bara gälla möjligheten att livnära en växande befolkning med livsmedel utan också frågan om vilka gränser naturen sätter för en ökande varuproduktion över huvud taget.Detta är första gången "En avhandling om befolkningslagen" har översatts till svenska i sin helhet.

Published in two volumes or as a set this provides a definitive scholarly variorum edition of Malthus's Principles of Political Economy. It contains the full text of the first 1820 edition, including Malthus's own invaluable 70-page summary, and contains details of all the additions, omissions and emendations that occurred between the first and the second, posthumous, edition of 1836. The first edition is extremely rare, and for over 150 years confusions and disagreements have inevitably occurred in the interpretation of Malthus's economics because of the absence of any systematic record of the differences between the two editions. The editor has written a lengthy and authoritative introduction giving an account, derived mainly from contemporary correspondence, of the events and circumstances surrounding the publication of the two editions. It shows the relationship between the Principles and Malthus's other writings and activities as a political economist. There is also an editorial commentary that aims to explain the significance and origin of the alterations.

Malthus explores the rising price of provisions in England in An Investigation of the Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions. He speculates the causes of these changes, suggesting that it was not a result of corruption, but a natural consequence of the poor laws that were passed for the benefit of the lower class. This was one of his first essays on the relationship of population and economics. THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1766-1834) was an English classical economist, educated at Jesus College in Cambridge. In 1798, he took orders as a curate at Albury in Surrey, and became a Professor of History and Political Economy at the East India Company College (now known as Haileybury) in 1805. His most notable work is An Essay on the Principle of Population, with six editions published between 1798 to 1826.

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Discovered in the estate of a distant nephew, and previously unpublished, this book is the second of two volumes comprising a collection of manuscripts by or relating to T.R. Malthus. The texts consist of correspondence, sermons, essays and lecture notes on political economy and history.

This volume comprises a collection of manuscripts by or relating to T.R. Malthus--recently discovered and previously unpublished--consisting of correspondence, sermons, essays and lecture notes on political economy and history. The manuscripts provide insights into Malthus' personal life--especially his relationships with his parents and his tutors, and also suggest hitherto unknown influences on his intellectual development. They represent a remarkable discovery, more than 150 years after Malthus' death.