1. Introduction -- 2. The Webbs -- 3. The Economics of Deprivation -- 4. Unemployment -- 5. Cooperation -- 6. The Labour Factor -- 7. Decline and Fall -- 8. Communism -- 9. Rights and Duties -- 10. The Legacy of the Webbs.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to...