Examen du livre de M. Malthus sur le Principe de Population; auquel on a joint la Traduction de quatre Chapitres de ce Livre supprimés dans l'Edition française; et une lettre à M. Say sur son Traité d

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The rare first edition of the final work by the Physiocrat economist Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), published in America, where he died earlier in the same year. The work is hugely significant as the only published theoretical engagement with the works of Malthus by a proponent of the Physiocrat school, since all of the major followers of Quesnay had passed away by the time of publication. It stands as a remarkable commentary on the development of the classical school of political economy in Britain and France since the great ferment of economic thought in France half a century earlier, in which Du Pont himself had been a key figure. It includes a translation of the final four chapters of Malthus’s Essay on Population , which had been omitted from the original French translation, and a letter to Jean-Baptiste Say, whose Traite d’économie politique du Pont had read aboard the ship Fingal in 1814. Einaudi, 1666; Kress, 21762.1.

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