相關商品
商品簡介
作者簡介
商品簡介
English economist and professor Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834) caused great public controversy among the optimistic positivitists of his day when his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) showed incontrovertibly that population, when unchecked, tends to increase faster than the availability of subsistence therefore preventive checks on population increase are necessary. Malthus, whose work influenced the research of Charles Darwin, admitted he was pessimistic about the future of humankind. He argued, through mathematical proofs and scientific documentation, that without population control the societal result is overcrowding, disease, war, poverty, and vice.
作者簡介
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS was born in Rookery, Surrey, England, in February 1766. He attended Cambridge Uni-versity, earning a master's degree in 1791. In 1805 he became a professor of history and political economy at the East India Company's college in Haileybury, Hertfordshire, a position he held for the rest of his life.?
Malthus is most famous for his Essay on the Principle of Population Control (1798), which argues that increases in population will eventually overcome the world's ability to feed itself, resulting in widespread starvation. He based this conclusion on the belief that populations grow at a geo-metric rate, whereas the food supply increases at an arith-metic one.?
A pessimist who viewed the notion of human per-fectibility as foolishness, Malthus saw famine, disease, and war as necessary checks on population growth. Later he believed that "moral restraint"
(delayed marriage and sexual abstinence prior to it) could also help curb the problem.?
Malthus's works on economics include An Inquiry into Nature and the Progress of Rent (1815) and Principles of Polit-ical Economy (1820). Many ideas contained in these works anticipate the thinking of economist John Maynard Keynes, who lived a century later. Malthus's pessimistic assessment of life as a "struggle for existence" also influ-enced Charles Darwin's evolutionary mechanism of natural selection, or "survival of the fittest."?
Thomas Malthus died at Haileybury on December 23, 1834.
Malthus is most famous for his Essay on the Principle of Population Control (1798), which argues that increases in population will eventually overcome the world's ability to feed itself, resulting in widespread starvation. He based this conclusion on the belief that populations grow at a geo-metric rate, whereas the food supply increases at an arith-metic one.?
A pessimist who viewed the notion of human per-fectibility as foolishness, Malthus saw famine, disease, and war as necessary checks on population growth. Later he believed that "moral restraint"
(delayed marriage and sexual abstinence prior to it) could also help curb the problem.?
Malthus's works on economics include An Inquiry into Nature and the Progress of Rent (1815) and Principles of Polit-ical Economy (1820). Many ideas contained in these works anticipate the thinking of economist John Maynard Keynes, who lived a century later. Malthus's pessimistic assessment of life as a "struggle for existence" also influ-enced Charles Darwin's evolutionary mechanism of natural selection, or "survival of the fittest."?
Thomas Malthus died at Haileybury on December 23, 1834.
![漂鳥集[中英雙語版]](https://cdnec.sanmin.com.tw/product_images/957/957146403.jpg)
您曾經瀏覽過的商品
購物須知
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。