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An Essay on the Principle of Population (2nd ed.)

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"An Essay on the Principle of Population" was first published in 1798.

This edition contains the original text, along with the author's (1803) revisions.

Background and source materials include such writers as David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx.

Contemporary commentary ranges from Lester R. Brown, Paul and Ane Ehrlich and Garrett Hartin to Julian Simon and Pope Paul VI.

The evolution of Thomas Malthus' idea and its validity through time is traced in the introduction.

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WW Norton & Co
0393924106 / 9780393924107
Paperback / softback
304.6
02/09/2003
United States
English
352 p.
22 cm
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