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As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly
rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains
increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population
(1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their
resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease,
and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond
their means of subsistence. Malthus's simple but powerful argument
was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword
for active concern about humankind's demographic and ecological
prospects.
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Malthus's "Essay on the Principles of Population" was one of the
most controversial books ever published. Going through six editions
in the author's lifetime, it cast a long shadow down the 19th
century, with nearly all of the century's leading thinkers from
Hazlitt and Ricardo to Marx and Darwin feeling compelled to comment
on it. This set draws together a range of responses to Malthus and
his work from the 100 years following the first publication of the
"Essay" in 1798. Although it gives a central place to his ideas on
population, the pieces also explore Malthus's other contributions
to political economy, especially those relating to the Poor Laws
and the Corn Laws. The selections aim to demonstrate how wide
ranging and varied the response to Malthus was and how powerful a
hold his ideas exerted on both his supporters and his detractors.
There are contributions from literary figures, scientists and
economists, as well as responses from France, the United States and
the United Kingdom.
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