Brief Description:
Published in two volumes, these books provide a student audience with an excellent scholarly edition of Malthus' Essay on Population. This is the two volume set.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME I: Book I. Of the Checks to Population in the less civilized Parts of the World, and in Past Times: 1. Statement of the Subject. Ratios of the Increase of Population and Food; 2. Of the general Checks to Population, and the Mode of their Operation; 3. Of the Checks to Population in the lowest Stage of Human Society; 4. Of the Checks to Population among the American Indians; 5. Of the Checks to Population in the Islands of the South Sea; 6. Of the Checks to Population among the ancient Inhabitants of the North of Europe; 7. Of the Checks to Population among modern Pastoral Nations; 8. Of the Checks to Population in different Parts of Africa; 9. Of the Checks to Population in Siberia, Northern and Southern; 10. Of the Checks to Population in the Turkish Dominions and Persia; 11. Of the Checks to Population in Indostan and Tibet; 12. Of the Checks to Population in China and Japan; 13. Of the Checks to Population among the Greeks; 14. Of the Checks to Population among the Romans; Book II. Of the Checks to Population in the different States of Modern Europe: 1. Of the Checks to Population in Norway; 2. Of the Checks to Population in Sweden; 3. Of the Checks to Population in Russia; 4. (a) On the fruitfulness of Marriages [1803]; 5. Of the Checks to Population in the middle parts of Europe; 6. (a) Effects of Epidemics on Tables of Mortality [1803]; 7. Of the Checks to Population in Switzerland; 8. Of the Checks to Population in France; 9. Of the Checks to Population in France (continued) [Added 1817]; 10. Of the Checks to Population in England; 11. Of the Checks to Population in England (continued) [Added 1817]; 12. Of the Checks to Population in Scotland and Ireland; 13. General deductions from the preceding view of Society; Book III. Of the different Systems of Expedients which have been proposed or have prevailed in Society, as they affect the Evils arising from the Principle of Population: 1. Of Systems of Equality. Wallace. Condorcet; 2. Of Systems of Equality. Godwin; 3. (a) Observations on the Reply of Mr Godwin [1803] 3. (b) Of Systems of Equality (continued) [Substituted 1817]; 4. Of Emigration; 5. Of the English Poor Laws; 6. Subject of Poor Laws continued; 7. Of Poor-Laws, continued [Added 1817]; 8. Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor; 9. Of the Definitions of Wealth. Agricultural and Commercial Systems [1803]; 10. Different Effects of the Agricultural and Commercial Systems; 11. Of Bounties on the Exportation of Corn; 12. Of the principal Sources of the prevailing Errors on the Subject of Population; Volume II; Book II. Re-written Chapters [1806]: 4. (b) On the fruitfulness of Marriages; 6. (b) Effects of Epidemics on Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages; Book III. Re-written Chapters [1817]: A. Of the Agricultural System; B. Of the Commercial System; C. Of Systems of Agriculture and Commerce combined; D. Of Corn Laws. Bounties upon Exportation; E. Of Corn Laws. Restrictions upon Importation; F. Of increasing Wealth as it affects the Condition of the Poor; Book IV. Of our future Prospects respecting the Removal or Mitigation of the Evils arising from the Principle of Population: 1. Of moral restraint, and the foundations of our obligation to practise this virtue; 2. Of the Effects which would result to Society from the general practice of this virtue; 3. Of the only effectual mode of improving the condition of the poor; 4. Objections to this mode considered; 5. Of the consequences of pursuing the opposite mode; 6. Effects of the knowledge of the principal cause of poverty on Civil Liberty; 5. Of the consequences of pursuing the opposite mode; 6. Effects of the knowledge of the principal cause of poverty on Civil Liberty; 7. Continuation of the same subject [Added 1817]; 8. Plan of the gradual abolition of the Poor Laws proposed; 9. Of the modes of correcting the prevailing opi

Marc Notes:
This ed. originally published: 1989.;Written in 1798 as a polite attack on post-French revolutionary speculations on the theme of social and human perfectibility, Malthus's book remains one of the most powerful statements of the limits to human hopes set by the tension between population growth and natural resources.