An Essay on the Principle of Population(Oxford Worlds Classics)
Author Thomas Malthus
Format Paperback | 208 pages
Dimensions 127 x 190 x 15mm | 136g
Publication date 01 Aug 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Language English
ISBN10 0199540454
ISBN13 9780199540457
內容簡介
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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