Malthus: A Very Short Introduction

by Donald Winch

Book Overview

With world population today edging over seven billion, and with projections for it to reach nine billion by mid-century, the ideas of eighteenth-century English cleric Thomas Malthus-and his grim prediction that war, plague, and famine are the inevitable response to overpopulation--loom ever larger on the horizon. But if Malthus is a familiar name to most educated people, few of us have read his famous and controversial work, Essay on the Principle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199670412
• ISBN13: 9780199670413
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 6.8"