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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: T. R. Malthus, T.r. Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus
• Con la collaborazione di: Donald Winch (Editore), Winch Donald (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.08.1992
• EAN: 9780521419543
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41954-3
• Pagine: 430
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Russian L; Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Politics & government, Politics and government