Malthus: ''An Essay on the Principle of Population''

Klappentext This book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Acknowledgements and notes on the text; Principle events in the life of Robert Malthus; Biographical notes; Guide to further reading; Essay on the Principle of Population; Index.

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• Authors: T. R. Malthus, T.R. Malthus, Thomas R. Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus
• Assisted by: Raymond Geuss (Editor), Donald Winch (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.1992
• EAN: 9780521429726
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42972-6
• No. of pages: 430
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; Cambridge Texts in the History
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories