MALTHUS (Thomas Robert). Essay on the principle of populatio - Lot 81

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MALTHUS (Thomas Robert). Essay on the principle of populatio - Lot 81
MALTHUS (Thomas Robert). Essay on the principle of population. Paris et Genève, Paschoud, 1809. 3 volumes in-8, long grain brown half-marocco bradel with small vellum corners, spine decorated, yellow edges (contemporary binding). Goldsmiths, No. 1982.1. First French edition, dedicated to Benjamin Delessert. One of the key texts of the economic and demographic thought of the 19th century, in which the author develops his doctrine of population restriction: Malthusianism. Indeed, Malthus (1766-1834) demonstrates by a mathematical law that populations multiply too rapidly in relation to their subsistence: We can therefore take it for granted that, when the population is not stopped by any obstacle, it will double every twenty-five years, and grow from period to period according to a geometric progression. ...] Let us bring to a thousand million the number of the present inhabitants of the earth: the human race grows like the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; while the subsistence population grows like these, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (v. I, p. 8 and p. 14). Pleasant copy bound at the time. Some light freckles.
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