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Essay on the Principle of Population

Essay on the Principle of Population

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Series: Great Minds

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1573922552
ISBN13: 9781573922555
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Mar 1 1999
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
English economist and professor Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834) caused great public controversy among the optimistic positivitists of his day when his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) showed incontrovertibly that population, when unchecked, tends to increase faster than the availability of subsistence. Therefore preventive checks on population increase are necessary. Malthus, whose work influenced the research of Charles Darwin, admitted he was pessimistic about the future of humankind. He argued, through mathematical proofs and scientific documentation, that without population control the societal result is overcrowding, disease, war, poverty, and vice.

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