An Essay on the Principle of Population

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An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin. Malthus's Essay in its first published version (1798); selections from the expanded version (1803), which Malthus considered definitive; and an Appendix (1806). A rich selection of thematically arranged supporting documents concerning population growth and control, food supply, starvation, economics, and ethics since Malthus, and Malthusianism in the twenty-first century. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography. Book jacket.