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First published 1798

An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, first edition)

by Thomas Robert Malthus

London: J. Johnson, 1798; Online Library of Liberty edition108 pages

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Author
Thomas Robert Malthus
First published
1798
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
108
Publisher
London: J. Johnson, 1798; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

The anonymous first edition of Malthus's Essay, written as a reply to Godwin and Condorcet. It argues that population tends to grow geometrically while food supply grows only arithmetically, so that misery and vice check numbers. The short 1798 text is the original form of the argument, before Malthus revised and greatly expanded it in later editions.

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23 chapters · 55,011 words · free to read here

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I
  3. Chapter II
  4. Chapter III
  5. Chapter IV
  6. Chapter V
  7. Chapter VI
  8. Chapter VII
  9. Chapter VIII
  10. Chapter IX
  11. Chapter X
  12. Chapter XI
  13. Chapter XII
  14. Chapter XIII
  15. Chapter XIV
  16. Chapter XV
  17. Chapter XVI
  18. Chapter XVII
  19. Chapter XVIII
  20. Chapter XIX
  21. About Liberty Fund
  22. The Online Library of Liberty
  23. Copyright Information

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