This book provides a student audience with the best 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 new edition is intended
to show how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements and notes on the text
Principle events in the life of Robert Malthus
Biographical notes
Guide to further reading
Essay on the Principle of Population
Index.
