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An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Robert Malthus
其他書名
Text, Sources and Background, Criticism
出版Norton, 1976
ISBN039304419X9780393044195
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=daheOwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increasing importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that checks inthe form of poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence. Malthus's simple but powerful argument was controversial in his time; today his name has become a byword for active concern about humankind's demographic and ecologicalprospects.