Jensen, Hans. - In: Review of Social Economy 57 (1999) 4, pp. 450-465
William Godwin had a dual influence on Thomas Robert Malthus. First, Malthus wrote the premier (1798) edition of his … population and thereby pave the way toward universal affluence. There were only two checks on population, said Malthus in 1798 …: vice and misery. Second, pursuant to his discovery of virtuous checks on population in Scandinavia, Malthus reread Godwin …