Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Texts -- AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION -- or, A View of its past and present Effects on Human Happiness -- with an Inquiry into our Prospects respecting the future Removal or...

Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989. Introduced by editor Shannon C. Stimson, this...