Introduction: The Multiplication of Wretchedness -- The Yoke of Improvement -- The Enchantment of Property -- A Rooted Hatred between the Rich and the Poor -- Political Economy and the Rural Poor -- Nassau Senior and the New Poor Laws -- The Most Elementary Truths -- Bad Farming: The Ghost of a...

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...

The debate over theory before Malthus and Ricardo : Burke, Mackintosh, and Stewart -- The vocabulary of theory and practice in the Bullion controversy, 1797- -- The corn laws and free trade casuistry, 1813- -- Doctrinal contest I : value -- Doctrinal contest II : rent -- Doctrinal contest III :...

Contents: Introduction: Malthus across nations / Gilbert Faccarello, Masashi Izumo and Hiromi Morishita -- 1 Malthus's principle of population in Britain: restatement and antiquation / Ryan Walter -- 2 The reception of Malthus's Essay on Population in the United States / David Andrews -- 3...