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Recent Literature on Malthus

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It has been a long time since the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus has been seen primarily as the discoverer of the principal cause of poverty as well as the nature of its effective cure. Writing in 1892, after the Courts of Law had been forced to deal with neo-Malthusianism, Charles Drysdale of the Malthusian League began his introduction to The Life and Writings of T. R. Malthus as follows:

The Lord Chief Justice of England has pronounced that it is an irrefragable truth, and that all parties who have studied such questions know, since the days of the Rev. T. R. Malthus, that the great cause of indigence is the tendency that population has to increase faster than agriculture can furnish food [Drysdale, 1892, p. 1].

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Rashid, S. (1988). Recent Literature on Malthus. In: Thweatt, W.O. (eds) Classical Political Economy. Recent Economic Thought, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7782-3_3

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