Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population.
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus. Written: 1798 Source: Rod Hay's Archive for the History of Economic Thought, McMaster University, Canada html Markup: Andy Blunden.
From Thomas R. Malthus, First Essay on Population (London: Macmillan,1926), pp. i, 11-17, 26-31, 37-38. This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.
Malthus himself used only his middle name, Robert. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level.
In 1798, Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, which explained his predictions and changed the view of many people.Thomas Malthus believed that the human population exhibits exponential growth, which is when the increase is proportional to the amount already present.
Population - Population - Malthus and his successors: In 1798 Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. This hastily written pamphlet had as its principal object the refutation of the views of the utopians.
Thomas Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. LONDON, PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1798. rendered into HTML format by Ed Stephan, 10 Aug 1997.
The first, An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, was published in 1798. It was followed in 1803 by An Essay on the Principle of Population, or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness, which discussed the checks on population.