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The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. Electronic edition. book cover

The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. Electronic edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-234-3
Language: English
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Evil exists in the world, not to create despair, but activity.

The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. An Essay on the Principle of Population - 1798, Chapter XIX

Malthus, Thomas Robert. The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus. 8 vols. Edited by E A. Wrigley and David Souden. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1986.

  • Vol. 1(a). Introduction
  • Vol. 1(b). An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
  • Vol. 2. An Essay on the Principle of Population, 6th ed. (1826) (I) with variorum readings from the 2nd ed. (1803)
  • Vol. 3. An Essay on the Principle of Population, 6th ed. (1826) (II) with variorum readings from the 2nd ed. (1803)
  • Vol. 4. Essays on Population (1807-1821)
  • Vol. 5. Principles of Political Economy, 2nd ed. (1836), with variorum readings from the 1st ed. (1836) (I)
  • Vol. 6. Principles of Political Economy, 2nd ed. (1836), with variorum readings from the 1st ed. (1820) (II)
  • Vol. 7. Essays on Political Economy (1800-1827)
  • Vol. 8. Definitions in Political Economy (1827)

Notes

E. A. Wrigley is Reader at All Soul's College, Oxford and author of The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A Reconstruction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981) and People, Cities and Wealth: the transformation of traditional society (Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1987).

David Souden is a former Research Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a consultant to the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. He co-edited Migration, Society in Early Modern England (1987).

The edition is so good in itself that, especially for the scholar, but also for the general reader, it transcends the worth of the books included in it.... A superb edition of a long-neglected and often misunderstood master.

—Population and Development Review


The flow of more specialised studies of various aspects of Malthus work continues unabated. This excellent edition can do nothing but stimulate anew such inquiries. Apart from its great scholarly value, it will be an attractive addition to any library, public, private or simply personal.

—International Journal of Economics


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