The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus
Editors: E A Wrigley and David Souden
The Pickering Masters
978 1 85196 001 9: 234x156mm: £495.00/$875.00
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Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply. His works are increasingly recognised as the foundation of population studies and demographics, as precursors of Darwinism and as landmarks in the literature of political economy.
Contents
Volume 1
Introduction; An essay on the principle of population (1798)
Volumes 2 and 3
Introduction; An essay on the principle of population, sixth edition (1826), with variorum readings from the second edition (1803). Part 1. Part 2
Volume 4
Introduction; Essays on Population: Supplement, Encyclopaedia Britannica (1824); Newenham and others on the state of Ireland (1808); Newenham on the state of Ireland (1809); Godwin on Malthus (1821); Letters to Samuel Whitbread; amendment of the Poor Laws (1807); Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Grenville (1813); Statements respecting the East India College (1817)
Volume 5 and 6
Introduction; Principles of political economy second edition (1836) with variorum readings from the first edition (1820). Part 1 and 2
Volume 7
Introduction; Essays on Political Economy: An Investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions (1800); Observations on the effects of the Corn Laws (1814); The grounds of an opinion on the policy of restricting the importation of foreign corn (1815); An inquiry into the nature and progress of rent (1815); Tooke on high and low prices (1823); Depreciation of paper money (1811); Pamphlets on the bullion question (1811); The measure of value stated (1823); Political economy (1824); On the measure of the conditions necessary to the supply of commodities (1825); On the meaning which is most usually and most correctly attached to the term value of commodities (1827)
Volume 8
Introduction; Definitions in political economy (1827); Bibliography; General Index
Reviews
'The edition is so good in itself that, especially for the scholar, but also for the general reader, it transcends the worth of the books included in it... A superb edition of a long-neglected and often misunderstood master.'
Population and Development Review
The flow of more specialised studies of various aspects of Malthus work continues unabated. This excellent edition can do nothing but stimulate anew such inquiries. Apart from its great scholarly value, it will be an attractive addition to any library, public, private or simply personal.
International Journal of Economics