基本信息出版社：中国政法大学出版社
页码：392 页
出版日期：2003年05月
ISBN：7562023808
条形码：9787562023807
版本：第1版
装帧：平装
开本：32
正文语种：英语
丛书名：剑桥政治思想史原著系列
外文书名：An Essay on the Plinciple ot Population

内容简介 This volume makes available to a student audience one of the most controversial and miunderstood works published during the last two hundred years.Malthus`s Essay an Principle of Population began life in 1798 as a polite attock on some post-French-revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources.This edition is based on the authoritative variorum of the mature versions of the Essay published over the period 1803 to 1826.this was the period during which Malthus collected further demographic evidence and developed a distinctive stance as a political moralist on a number of important policy questions that were central to public debate during and immediatedy after the Napoleonic wars-the period in which Britain the adequacy of its political institutions and economic policies in the face of rapid population growth，political and industrialization.
The introduction and notes are aimed specifically at a modern student audience interested in how Malthusianism impinges on the history of political thought.
目录
Introduction
Acknowledgements and notes on the text
Principal events in the life of Robert Malthus
Biographical notes
Guide to further reading
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Index
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