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‘Population: the first Essay ’ explains how the first Essay pursues a complex polemical strategy. It begins with an exposition of the principle of population treated as a set of deductive propositions.
Population: the first essay. by. Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834. Publication date. 1959. Topics. Population, Population, Economie, Bevolking, Population Growth, Population Dynamics. Publisher.
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Series editors RAYMOND GEUSS Professor of Political Science, Columbia University QUENTIN SKINNER Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge This series will make available to students the most important texts required for an understanding of the history of political thought. The scholarship of the present generation has greatly e...
Malthus made no claim to originality so far as his basic principle was concerned. That population depends on the availability of subsistence, and will respond to changes in that availability, was an eighteenth-century commonplace, with David Hume, Adam Smith, and Robert Wallace being the figures to whom Malthus gave most credit for his own initial ...
Striking a balance between negative and positive forces, defining the golden mean in both private and public conduct, characterizes much of Malthus's thinking as a political moralist. The population principle served a negative polemical purpose - more prominent in the first edition of the Essay - in denying that Godwin's (in some ways) appealing vi...
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Essentially, for the first time, Malthus examined his own Principle of Population on a region-by-region basis of world population. The essay was organized in four books: Book I – Of the Checks to Population in the Less Civilized Parts of the World and in Past Times.
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Population: The First Essay. Thomas Robert Malthus. University of Michigan Press, 1959 - Business & Economics - 139 pages. Malthus's classic prescription for the problem of overpopulation....
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- University of Michigan Press, 1959
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13 de jun. de 2019 · First essay on population, 1798. by. Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834. Publication date. 1926. Topics. Population, Population. Publisher. London : Macmillan & Co. ltd. Collection. wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries. Contributor. Wellcome Library. Language. English. Rights.
5 de fev. de 2018 · An Essay on the Principle of Population. By Thomas Robert Malthus. There are two versions of Thomas Robert Malthus’s. Essay on the Principle of Population. The first, published anonymously in 1798, was so successful that Malthus soon elaborated on it under his real name.
