Illustrations and proofs of the principle of population: including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others.

PLACE, Francis (1771-1854)

Verlag: London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1822

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. XV,[1 blank],280p. Contemp. half calf, expertly rebacked and recornered, gilt back with red label, green sprinkled edges. Title with a few brown spots and some vague soiling, a few brown spots on just a few other leaves. First edition. An important contribution to population theory, with outspoken advocacy of birth control. It was provoked by William Godwin's second reply to Malthus. More sanguine than Malthus about the reform of institutions, he rejected Godwin's inconsistency and naivite. His defence of Malthusian principles and methods testifies to his own faith in individual effort and to the improvements in civilization he witnessed in his lifetime.' Place lays great stress on the misery, poverty, and crime which so frequently result from large families; and insists that it should be clearly pointed out to the poor that the market can be overstocked with labour; that this caused the low rate of wages; that misery and poverty follow indiscretion; and that by voluntary restriction of families, the supply of labour might be brought rather under the demand.'This is the author's only contribution to economic literature. Place was a radical reformer, friends with James Mill and Jeremy Bentham. He drafted the People's Charter in 1838, though he took no part in the later more extreme phase of Chartism, and greatly contributed to the legalization of trade unions.*Kress C.943. Goldsmiths' 23493. Einaudi 4458. Not in Mattioli. Palgrave III,p.112. New Palgrave III, p.879. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 34143

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Titel: Illustrations and proofs of the principle of...

Verlag: London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1822

Einband: Hardcover

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