MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.

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An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; Fourth edition of Malthus's Essay, first published in 1798, one of the most important and influential works in the history of economic thought, and the foundation text of modern demography.The second volume is appended with the first edition of Frederick Morton Eden's An Estimate of the Number of Inhabitants in Great Britain, an appropriate pairing by the contemporary owner - Eden's population census preceded the first national decennial population census by a year, but undershot the official figure by five million. It nonetheless marks, like Malthus's Essay, an important milestone in the study of population.

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