An Essay on the Principle of Population

An Essay on the Principle of Population
ISBN-10
1495298523
ISBN-13
9781495298523
Series
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Category
Social Science
Pages
126
Language
English
Published
2014-01-23
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Thomas Robert Malthus

Description

As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthus's simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankind's demographic and ecological prospects.

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