Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern about man's demographic and ecological prospects. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made avail[...]

"An Essay on the Principle of Population" was first published in 1798. This edition contains the original text, along with the author's (1803) revisions. Background and source materials include such writers as David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Contemporary commentary ranges fro[...]

Thomas Robert Malthus räknas som en av de mest inflytelserika klassiska ekonomerna. I sin berömda En avhandling om befolkningslagen (1798) - som hjälpte Charles Darwin att formulera teorin om det naturliga urvalet - tecknar han en dyster bild av framtiden. Befolkningen ökar med förbättrad levn[...]