An Essay on the Principle of Population (Timeless Wisdom Collection) - Softcover

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Thomas Robert Malthus was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. In his book An Essay on the Principle of Population, one of the classics of political economy of all times, he observed that sooner or later, population growth is checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

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