A Reply To the Essay On Population, By the Rev Tr Malthus

London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,, 1807. First edition of Hazlitt's violent attack on Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, one of the most important responses, but "responsible for much subsequent misunderstanding not only of Malthus, but of his reputation" (James, p. 349). Hazlitt argued that Malthus's theories turned "selfishness into a regular code" (p. 5) and… Read more about this item