Hollander investigates the relation of Malthusian economics to that of the other great classicists - particularly Smith, Ricardo, J.B. Say, and the French physiocrats. He redefines our common perception of Malthus's method and character.

This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published anonymously in 1798, the Essay systematically argues that population growth tends to outpace its means of subsistence unless kept in check by factors such as disease, famine, or war, or else by lowering the birth rate through such means as sexual abstinence. Challenging the widely held notion that Malthus's Essay was a product of the British and European context in which it was written, Alison Bashford and Joyce Chaplin demonstrate that it was the new world, as well as the old, that fundamentally shaped Malthus's ideas.

An investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions.--A letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P., on his proposed bill for the amendment of the poor laws.--A letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Grenville, occasioned by some observations of His Lordship on the East India Company's establishment for the education of their civil servants.--Observations on the effects of the corn laws.--The grounds of an opinion on the policy of restricting the importation of foreign corn.--An inquiry into the nature and progress of rent.--Statements respecting the East-India College.

Malthus has prepared in this work the general rules of political economy. He calls into question some of the reasonings of Ricardo and attempts to defend Adam Smith.

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Malthus's classic prescription for the problem of overpopulation