| An Essay on the Principle of Population Contributor(s): Malthus, Thomas Robert (Author), Chaplin, Joyce E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1324000554 ISBN-13: 9781324000556 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $25.18 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Business & Economics | Economic History - History |
| Dewey: 304.6 |
| LCCN: 2017025066 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Norton Critical Edition includes: - An introduction and explanatory annotations by Joyce E. Chaplin. - Malthus's Essay in its first published version (1798) along with selections from the expanded version (1803), which he considered definitive, as well as his Appendix (1806). - An unusually rich selection of supporting materials thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Influences on Malthus," "Economics, Population, and Ethics after Malthus," "Malthus and Global Challenges," and "Malthusianism in Fiction." - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chaplin, Joyce E.: - Joyce E. Chaplin is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island and in a maritime studies program in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001), The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), and Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2009). |