An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

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. With an introduction by Robert Mayhew.

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• Authors: Thomas Malthus, Thomas K. Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus, Malthus Thomas, Robert Mayhew
• Assisted by: Robert Mayhew (Editor), Mayhew Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9780141392820
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139282-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary essays, Biography and non-fiction prose, Population and Demography