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An Essay on the Principle of Population (Paperback)
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An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Malthus Brand New
Edition The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first
published in 1798 under the alias Joseph Johnson., but the author
was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. While it was not the
first book on population, it has been acknowledged as the most
influential work of its era. Its 6th edition was independently
cited as a key influence by both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
Wallace in developing the theory of natural selection. A key
portion of the book was dedicated to what is now known as Malthus'
Iron Law of Population. This name itself is retrospective, based on
the iron law of wages, which is the reformulation of Malthus'
position by Ferdinand Lassalle, who in turn derived the name from
Goethe's great, eternal iron laws in Das Gottliche. This theory
suggested that growing population rates would contribute to a
rising supply of labour that would inevitably lower wages. In
essence, Malthus feared that continued population growth would lend
itself to poverty. One immediate impact of Malthus's book was that
it fueled the debate about the size of the population in Britain
and led to (or at least greatly accelerated) the passing of the
Census Act 1800. This Act enabled the holding of a national census
in England, Wales and Scotland, starting in 1801 and continuing
every ten years to the present. In 1803, Malthus published a major
revision to his first edition, as the same title second edition;
his final version, the 6th edition, was published in 1826. However,
in 1830, 32 years after the first edition, Malthus published a
condensed version titled A Summary View on the Principle of
Population, which included remarks about criticisms of the main
book.
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