Essays on Political Economy
Pp. 2590. Publisher's original wine-red cloth, spine with black author/title box lettered in gilt and gilt-ruled, lg 8vo. Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply. His works are increasingly recognized as the foundation of population studies and demographics, as precursors of Darwinism and as landmarks in the literature of political economy. This is the only complete collected works of Thomas Robert Malthus; from the series: 'The Pickering Masters.' Volume 1: Introduction; An essay on the principle of population (1798); Volumes 2 and 3: Introduction; An essay on the principle of population (1826), with variorum readings from the second edition (1803); Volume 4: Introduction; Essays on Population: Supplement, Encyclopaedia Britannica (1824); Newenham and others on the state of Ireland (1808); Newenham on the state of Ireland (1809); Godwin on Malthus (1821); Letters to Samuel Whitbread; amendment of the Poor Laws (1807); Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Grenville (1813); Statements respecting the East India College (1817); Volume 5 and 6: Introduction; Principles of political economy (1836), Part 1 and 2; Volume 7: Introduction; Essays on Political Economy: An Investigation of the cause of the present high price of provisions (1800); Observations on the effects of the Corn Laws (1814); The grounds of an opinion on the policy of restricting the importation of foreign corn (1815); An inquiry into the nature and progress of rent (1815); Tooke on high and low prices (1823); Depreciation of paper money (1811); Pamphlets on the bullion question (1811); The measure of value stated (1823); Political economy (1824); On the measure of the conditions necessary to the supply of commodities (1825); On the meaning which is most usually and most correctly attached to the term value of commodities (1827); Volume 8: Introduction; Definitions in political economy (1827); Bibliography; General Index. No ownership marks.