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An Essay on the Principle of Population or a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness (Reprints of Economic Classics)
An Essay on the Principle of Population or a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness - Reprints of Economic Classics Author:T. R. Malthus Malthus extensively revised his first Essay as a result of his European travels undertaken to collect statistics on population and economic growth to substantiate his arguments. The revised work had become a full-scale treatise on demogaphy which offered new facts, a new arrangement and a new emphasis together with refutations of various a... more »ttacks on his theory. Further revised editions were published at regular intervals during his lifetime, the last, a sixth edition in 1826. "The [current] revival of interest in the Malthusian doctrine ...makes it one of the longest-lived social theories of all time." International Encylcopedia of the Social Sciences« less