An Essay on the Principle of Population (Oxford World's Classics)

An Essay on the Principle of Population (Oxford World's Classics) by Malthus, Thomas. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780192837479.

As the worlds population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthuss classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks in the form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthuss simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankinds demographic and ecological prospects.