Malthus
- ISBN-10
- 0674728718
- ISBN-13
- 9780674728714
- Series
- Malthus
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 284
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-28
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Robert J. Mayhew
Description
Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus's ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns.
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