The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. AM. FRS.

Demi-devil, Saint of merely Great Benefactor?

Reflections on the bicentenary of the first publication of Malthus' 

Essay on Population

By Jack Parsons

Price £6.00 

ISBN: 0-9541978-5-2

This 58 page booklet is an edited version of an open commemoration lecture delivered by Jack Parsons at Cardiff University in March 1998.

This detailed monograph is divided into 5 sections:

Part 1: Malthus' life and milieu

Part 2: Malthus as population theorist

Part 3: Malthus as radical social reformer

Part 4: Responses to Malthus and his ideas

Part 5: Relevance of Malthus to both present and future

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