商品簡介
Malthus's provocative historical work on social economy, demography, and population control
Malthus's seminal work on human population and its dependency on food production and other environmental factors was highly controversial upon its publication in 1798. Creator of what has come to be called the Malthusian catastrophe, he argued that humans would disregard the limits of natural resources, leading to a worldwide plague of famine and disease. Malthus significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, and his ideas remain intrinsic to the modern fields of social theory, economics, and the environment.
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作者簡介
After graduating from Cambridge, Thomas Malthus settled in Hertfordshire as a lecturer in history and political economy at the East India Company College. Among his many works,An Essay on the Principle of Population was the most sucessful and most outrageous. He boldly opposed popular Enlightenment ideals of the 18th-century.
Robert Mayhew is a professor of historical geography and intellectual history at Bristol University. In 2014 he publishedMalthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet.
