An Essay on the Principle of PopulationCosimo, Inc., 1 Απρ 2006 - 292 σελίδες Around 1796, Mr. Malthus, an English gentleman, had finished reading a book that confidently predicted human life would continue to grow richer, more comfortable and more secure, and that nothing could stop the march of progress. He discussed this theme with his son, Thomas, and Thomas ardently disagreed with both his father and the book he had been reading, along with the entire idea of unending human progress. Mr. Malthus suggested that he write down his objections so that they could discuss them point-by-point. Not long after, Thomas returned with a rather long essay. His father read it and was so impressed that he urged his son to have it published. And so, in 1798, Thomas Malthus' An Essay on Population appeared. Though it was attacked at the time and ridiculed for many years afterward, it has remained one of the most influential works in the English language on the general checks and balances of the world's population and its necessary control. Volume 2 includes: Book III: "Of the Different Systems, Which Have Been Proposed or Have Prevailed in Society, As They Affect the Evils Arising from The Principle of Population." ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO CLASSICS: Malthus' An Essay on Population - Vol. 1 THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS, born in 1766 and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1798, he was curate at Albury in Surrey, and become Professor History and Political Economy at Haileybury College, 1805. He died in 1834. |
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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or a View of Its Past and Present ... Thomas Robert Malthus Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1989 |
An Essay on the Principle of Population (Two Volumes in One) Thomas Robert Malthus Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2011 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Adam Smith advantage agriculture appear arising Bank of England benevolence bounty capital cause cheap soups circumstances classes of society commerce common condition consequence considerable corn-laws cultivation degree demand for labour diminished distress effect employed employment encourage England evidently evil exertions exportation foreign corn greater habits happiness human improvement increase of population indolence industry labouring classes land law of chastity laws of nature lower classes maintenance of labour manufactures marriage marry means of subsistence ment misery moral nation necessarily necessary object observed occasioned parish assistance particular passion peace of Amiens perhaps period poor poor-laws poverty present price of corn price of labour price of provisions principle of population probably profits progress proportion RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS raw produce reason Robert Gourlay scarcity septiers shillings sufficient supply supposed system of equality take place tend tion wages of labour wealth Wealth of Nations workhouses
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 13 - There is a principle in human society, by which population is perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence. Thus among the wandering tribes of America and Asia, we never find through the lapse of ages that population has so increased as to render necessary the cultivation of the earth.
Σελίδα 52 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Σελίδα 17 - Alas! what becomes of the picture where men lived in the midst of plenty, where no man...
Σελίδα 14 - Man cannot live in the midst of plenty. All cannot share alike the bounties of nature. Were there no established administration of property, every man would be obliged to guard with force his little store.
Σελίδα 145 - That an increase of population, when it follows in its natural order, is both a great positive good in itself, and absolutely necessary to a further increase in the annual produce of the land and labour of any country, I should be the last to deny.
Σελίδα 19 - It seems highly probable therefore, that an administration of property not very different from that which prevails in civilized states at present would be established as the best though inadequate remedy for the evils which were pressing on the society.
Σελίδα 180 - Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome...
Σελίδα 50 - The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole attention; and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving, they seldom exercise it; but all that they earn beyond their present necessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale-house. The poor-laws may therefore be said to diminish both the power and the will to save among the common people; and thus to weaken one of the strongest incentives...
Σελίδα 253 - That the condition most favourable to population is that of a laborious, frugal people, ministering to the demands of an opulent, luxurious nation ; because this situation, whilst it leaves them every advantage of luxury, exempts them from the evils which naturally accompany its admission into any country.
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