Lot 337 Thomas Robert Malthus. An Essay on the Principle of …

An Essay on the Principle of Population, or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness, with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. The fourth edition. 2 Bände. London, Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, by T. Bensley, 1807. XVI, 580, VII 484 Seiten, 30 Bll. Index. Marmor. Lederbände mit reicher Rückenvergoldung (etwas berieben, Gelenke beschabt und teils angebrochen, Kapitale von Bd. 1 etwas abgeschabt).

Wirtschaft und Staatswissenschaften

Geschichtswissenschaften – Vgl. Einaudi 3669, Kress B 5067 u. Goldsmiths 19210 - Frühe Ausgabe des einflussreichen Klassikers, ein Meilenstein der modernen Ökonomie. Die erste sachlich begründete Abhandlung über das Bevölkerungswachstum und seine sozialen und ökonomischen Folgen, und das erste Werk, das ausdrücklich die Gefahren eines exponentiellen Wachstums beschreibt - Von großem Einfluss auf nachfolgende Denker wie John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx und Charles Darwin. Die 4. Auflage basiert auf der geänderten dritten Auflage mit einem Appendix von Malthus, als Reaktion auf die Einwände zu seinen früheren Schlußfolgerungen. - Exlibris auf Innendeckel, Vorsätze etwas fleckig.

History – An early edition of this influential classic, a milestone in modern economics. The first empirically grounded treatise on population growth and its social and economic consequences, and the first work to explicitly describe the dangers of exponential growth-it had a profound influence on subsequent thinkers such as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Charles Darwin. The 4th edition is based on the revised third edition, which includes an appendix by Malthus in response to objections to his earlier conclusions.

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