Author: Thomas Malthus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392835
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease. He significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and his theories continue to raise important questions today in the fields of social theory, economics and the environment. With an introduction by Robert Mayhew.
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
Author: Thomas Malthus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392835
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease. He significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and his theories continue to raise important questions today in the fields of social theory, economics and the environment. With an introduction by Robert Mayhew.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392835
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources and the world would be plagued by famine and disease. He significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and his theories continue to raise important questions today in the fields of social theory, economics and the environment. With an introduction by Robert Mayhew.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Author: T. R. Malthus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115771
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486115771
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources.
T. R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population: Volume 2
Author: T. R. Malthus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521323630
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent 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 edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought, and how the author's reputation as a population theorist and political economist was established.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521323630
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent 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 edition is intended to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought, and how the author's reputation as a population theorist and political economist was established.
Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application
Author: Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blake
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Malthus has prepared in this work the general rules of political economy. He calls into question some of the reasonings of Ricardo and attempts to defend Adam Smith.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blake
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Malthus has prepared in this work the general rules of political economy. He calls into question some of the reasonings of Ricardo and attempts to defend Adam Smith.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Author: Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Population
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Population
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Two Lectures on Population
Author: Nassau William Senior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malthusianism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malthusianism
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Author: Alison Bashford
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691177910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691177910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas.
The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus
Author: Thomas Robert Malthus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics
Author: Nicolas Bacaƫr
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0857291157
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As Eugene Wigner stressed, mathematics has proven unreasonably effective in the physical sciences and their technological applications. The role of mathematics in the biological, medical and social sciences has been much more modest but has recently grown thanks to the simulation capacity offered by modern computers. This book traces the history of population dynamics---a theoretical subject closely connected to genetics, ecology, epidemiology and demography---where mathematics has brought significant insights. It presents an overview of the genesis of several important themes: exponential growth, from Euler and Malthus to the Chinese one-child policy; the development of stochastic models, from Mendel's laws and the question of extinction of family names to percolation theory for the spread of epidemics, and chaotic populations, where determinism and randomness intertwine. The reader of this book will see, from a different perspective, the problems that scientists face when governments ask for reliable predictions to help control epidemics (AIDS, SARS, swine flu), manage renewable resources (fishing quotas, spread of genetically modified organisms) or anticipate demographic evolutions such as aging.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0857291157
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As Eugene Wigner stressed, mathematics has proven unreasonably effective in the physical sciences and their technological applications. The role of mathematics in the biological, medical and social sciences has been much more modest but has recently grown thanks to the simulation capacity offered by modern computers. This book traces the history of population dynamics---a theoretical subject closely connected to genetics, ecology, epidemiology and demography---where mathematics has brought significant insights. It presents an overview of the genesis of several important themes: exponential growth, from Euler and Malthus to the Chinese one-child policy; the development of stochastic models, from Mendel's laws and the question of extinction of family names to percolation theory for the spread of epidemics, and chaotic populations, where determinism and randomness intertwine. The reader of this book will see, from a different perspective, the problems that scientists face when governments ask for reliable predictions to help control epidemics (AIDS, SARS, swine flu), manage renewable resources (fishing quotas, spread of genetically modified organisms) or anticipate demographic evolutions such as aging.
An Investigation of the Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions
Author: T R (Thomas Robert) 1766- Malthus
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014491053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014491053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.