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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book provides a student audience with the best scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on 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. Based on the authoritative variorum edition of the versions of the Essay published between 1803 and 1826, and complete with full introduction and bibliographic apparatus, this new edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought. ... Read more

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There is a better edition available...
This is the second (1803) edition of Malthus' Essay, which is considerably expanded from the first (1798) edition, to the point of being a completely new book.It is truly excellent - well worth your time, even if you have already read the first edition.There is a better edition available than this one though (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought).For some incomprehensible reason, the editors ommited chapters 3 through 12 of Book 1, and ALL of Book 2 from this edition.To read the entire Essay, getAn Essay on the Principle of Population - Vol. 1 and An Essay on the Principle of Population - Vol. 2 ... or, get An Essay on the Principle of Population - Vol. 1 for books one and two, and this edition Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) for books 3 and 4. There don't seem to be any one volume editions of the second edition. ... Read more

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This volume comprises a collection of manuscripts by or relating to T.R. Malthus--recently discovered and previously unpublished--consisting of correspondence, sermons, essays and lecture notes on political economy and history. The manuscripts provide insights into Malthus' personal life--especially his relationships with his parents and his tutors, and also suggest hitherto unknown influences on his intellectual development. They represent a remarkable discovery, more than 150 years after Malthus' death. ... Read more

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This unique collection brings together a wide range of responses to Malthus' works from 1798 through 1900. While it concentrates on responses to his ideas on population, this set also explores Malthus' contributions to political economy, especially those relating to the Poor Laws and the Corn Laws. The selections illustrate the wide-ranging, varied response to Malthus' work, and his powerful influence on supporters and detractors alike. There are contributions from literary figures and scientists, as well as economists, and responses from France and the United States as well as from the United Kingdom. ... Read more

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Samuel Hollander provides the first in-depth study of Malthus's achievement as an economist. Malthus's message has been largely misrepresented by decades of careless and biased interpretation. In this volume, Samuel Hollander re-examines these interpretations and presents a full and coherent picture of Malthus's economics. He evaluates John Maynard Keynes's famous dichotomy between the Ricardian and Malthusian methods, proving that the two were far closer to each other than is generally supposed.The relation of Malthus's ideas to those of his predecessors is thoroughly examined, for example, his roots in the Wealth of Nations are demonstrated and the physiocratic and Sraffian dimensions of his work are brought to light. Hollander extends his analysis to biographical factors; he discounts the textbook perspective on Malthus as a social-welfare pessimist and dispels the common notion of Malthus as spokesman of the land-owning classes. The standard charges against Malthus of inconsistency and intellectual dishonesty are also challenged.

Samuel Hollander has produced the definitive study of Thomas Robert Malthus. A major contribution to the history of economic theory, the study has much broader appeal as a portrait of a central figure in early nineteenth-century debates over social policy -particularly those having to do with the role of government in relation to social welfare, economic growth, and trade protection. ... Read more

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This book is a companion volume to the Royal Economic Soviety edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, edited by Piero Sraffa with the collaboration of Maurice Dobb. It completes the record on Ricardian value theory by showing Ricardo's reaction to Malthus's pamphlet The Measure of Value Stated and Illustrated of 1823. Ricardo's Notes are, in Sraffa's words, 'the only vonsiderable item' not appearing in the Royal Economic Society edition of his works. In addition, the recent publication by Cambridge of the variorum edition of Malthus's Principles of Political Economy, edited by J. M. Pullen, makes it possible to understand Malthus's pamphlet as an intermediate step between the 1820 and 1836 editions of the Principles. In his introduction Pier Luigi Porta highlights the place of these Notes in the development of Ricardo's thinking. When taken with Ricardo's paper on 'Absolute Value and Exchangeable Value', these Notes provide the essentials of Ricardian value theory. ... Read more

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This work includes commentary and criticism of Mathus' essay, which is reprinted here. It suggest that the essay is a subtle social theory on the relationship between sociocultural systems and their environments. The text looks at the methodology and the materialist, evolutionary and functional elements of his theory, and covers the application of his theory to understanding the nature of welfare programs and possible social programs. ... Read more

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This work traces the history of a debate which took place among the economists, political philosophers and writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, about whether the benefits of scientific progress would be nullified by the growth of the global population. ... Read more

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Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill dominated the study of the social sciences in the Nineteenth Century. It was Malthus, not Ricardo or Marx, who was the most famous social scientist of the Nineteenth Century. This fame rested upon his pamphlet, "An Essay on the Principle of Population", whose harsh conclusion caused much contemporary concern. However, the essays published in this volume emphasis the theological, moral and historical orientation of his thought and the more positive attitude towards the masses found within his later writings. The breadth and sophistication of Jon Stuart Mill's life and works is no less stunning now than it was in the nineteenth century. Not only an economist, Mill was also a Benthamite, logician, philosopher, political theorist and "belle lettrist". Recent scholarship has reinforced our sense of a thinker whose system of thought as a whole is rich, subtle and basically coherent within its own terms. ... Read more

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The volumes are thematically arranged, examining first the life of Thomas Malthus and perspectives on his thought; secondly his Essay on Population and Principles of political thought: and thirdly Malthusian Economic Analysis. ... Read more

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Interesting subject matter, innovative perspective, but hard to read
I agree, this book presents an interesting reinterpretation of Malthus and his theories.. and the use of case studies is really good.But the writing is dry, and I found it extremely difficult to get through.. but once you do the conceptual background is very intriguing.

An important rethinking of Malthus
Ross' analysis of Cold War uses of Malthusian dogma is succinct and brings a fresh and consistent analysis to, "the increasing subordination of demographic thinking to the Cold War."Ross examines the uses of the United States' Cold War policy directives which representedthe underdeveloped world's demographic state (literally) as a "population bomb" needing to be defused by technicians from the North before its detonation shattered the global economic order.Further, Ross contextualizes Hardin's just-so-story of the Tragedy of the Commons as a Cold War parable passed on as empirical fact, a parable that teaches us that only private property, and an unequal distribution of resources can lead to social harmony.

The Malthus Factor is packed with detailed examples of how wide-ranging Malthus' impact on society has been, from discussions of the connections between the Green Revolution's fertilizer requirements and linkages between munitions industries and fertilizer industries, to links between the rise of the American Eugenics movement and the historical demise of American midwifery, to the roles of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in funding the Eugenics movement.Even readers who disagrees with Ross' theoretical approach to Malthus will learn something of value from his analysis.I expect that this book will soon become required reading for any graduate student studying for exams covering both demographic theory and political economy.

A critique of Malthusian thinking on capitalist development.
Synopsis from Amazon.co.uk-- This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. It highlights the strategicrole of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economywhen confronted by struggles for equality and human progress. ... Read more