
T. R. Malthus: Principles of Political Economy: Volume 1
Principles of Political Economy: Volume 1
T. R. Malthus(Author)
John Pullen(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 4. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
680 pages
978-0-521-07591-6 (ISBN)
Description
Published in two volumes or as a set this provides a definitive scholarly variorum edition of Malthus's Principles of Political Economy. It contains the full text of the first 1820 edition, including Malthus's own invaluable 70-page summary, and contains details of all the additions, omissions and emendations that occurred between the first and the second, posthumous, edition of 1836. The first edition is extremely rare, and for over 150 years confusions and disagreements have inevitably occurred in the interpretation of Malthus's economics because of the absence of any systematic record of the differences between the two editions. The editor has written a lengthy and authoritative introduction giving an account, derived mainly from contemporary correspondence, of the events and circumstances surrounding the publication of the two editions. It shows the relationship between the Principles and Malthus's other writings and activities as a political economist. There is also an editorial commentary that aims to explain the significance and origin of the alterations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
1087 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-07591-6 (9780521075916)
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T. R. Malthus | John Pullen
T. R. Malthus: Principles of Political Economy: Volume 1
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01/1989
Cambridge University Press
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T. R. Malthus | John Pullen
T. R. Malthus: Principles of Political Economy: Volume 1
Book
01/1989
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Volume I: The text of the first edition of T. R. Malthus, Principles of Political Economy, 1820, with marginal annotations indicating the places where alterations were made either in Malthus' Manuscript Revisions or in the second edition, 1836; Summary; Index.