An Essay on the Principle of Population

ISBN: 9780393924107

作者: Philip Appleman/Thomas Robert Malthus

出版社: W. W. Norton & Co.

出版年: 2003-9-2

页数: 352

定价: GBP 9.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

"An Essay on the Principle of Population" was first published in 1798. This edition contains the original text, along with the author's (1803) revisions. Background and source materials include such writers as David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Contemporary commentary ranges from Lester R. Brown, Paul and Ane Ehrlich and Garrett Hartin to Julian Simon and Pope Paul VI. The evolution of Thomas Malthus' idea and its validity through time is traced in the introduction.