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Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted

The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numb

Presents Malthus's controversial and powerful argument concerning man's demographic and ecological prospects.

Around 1796, Mr. Malthus, an English gentleman, had finished reading a book that confidently predicted human life would continue to grow richer, more comfortabl

An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Malthus The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published in 1798 under the alias Joseph Johns