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Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo. 8vo. viii, 472 pp. First American Edition, 1821. Very scarce title, issued a year after the first English edition of 1820. Rebound in brown half-leather with tan cloth, a red title plate and gilt lettering to spine. 2" closed tear to bottom edge prelim and a 1" closed tear to bottom edge half-title, and age-toned text block edges. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 5.75" x 9". In removable protective mylar. "Malthus proposed public works and private luxury investment as possible solutions for economic distress through their ability to increase demand and prosperity.".

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Bound in marbled boards, spine rebacked in modern leather. Burgundy Moroccan leather spine label. Clean, unmarked pages. Marginal browning to pages. Internally very good. <br> The first English edition was printed by John Murray in 1820, this is the 1st American edition printed in 1821 in Boston.J.M. Keynes "argued that Malthus's theory of effective demand provided a scientific explanation of unemployment, and that the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics. Keynes believed that if economics had followed Malthus ... the world would be a much wiser and richer place" (ODNB). The last chapter of the book was devoted to rebutting Say's law, and argued that the economy could stagnate with a lack of "effectual demand". In other words, wages if less than the total costs of production cannot purchase the total… Read More

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821. First American edition of this landmark work in political economy. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, black leather morocco spine label. In near fine condition. In his Principle of Political Economy, Malthus was proposing investment in public works and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand, and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation, he thought, must balance the power to produce and the will to consume" (DSB).

London: William Pickering, 1836., 1836. 8vo. pp. liv, [1 leaf], 446. untrimmed & partly unopened in original cloth (spine dull & frayed at ends, label chipped). Second Enlarged Edition of Malthus's chief contribution to general economic theory, in which he explains in particular his differences with Ricardo. ".Ricardo's work.started with the Wealth of Nations and recoined the latter's theoretical contents by a method that centered in the concept of value. Exactly the same thing is evidently true of the work of Malthus.Except for his theory of saving and investment, which on the face of it seems to be Malthus's own, all the elements that enter into the analytic apparatus of that work, and even its terminological arrangements, point to the First Book of the Wealth of Nations. Only, whereas Richardo recoined the doctrine of the Wealth by means of the labor-quantity theory of value, Malthus recoined it by the means of the theory of value that A.Smith actually used, namely, the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 601pp. Octavo [22 cm] rebound in later half brown calf over hand-painted brown cloth, with gilt-stamped black morocco spine label, raised spine bands, new endpapers. Surface of cloth treated with a transparent shellac of some kind, giving it a striated shine when viewed at an angle; some bubbling-up of front board cloth, light dampstaining to rear board; a handful of light pencil underlines and one contemporary ink blot, very light foxing, else interior is remarkably clean. Malthus was known for his economic pessimism. He saw poverty as man's unavoidable destiny.

London: John Murray,, 1820. From the library of a neo-Malthusian First edition, with the stamp on the title page of Carel Victor Gerritsen (1850-1905), the radical Dutch politican who founded the Nieuw-Malthusiaansche Bond (Neo-Malthusian League) in 1881; like Malthus Gerritsen deemed unchecked population growth the root of society's ills and proposed - unlike Malthus - the use of contraception to restrain it. Principles of Political Economy was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise. Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo, with whom he had been having an ongoing debate about the nature of labour, demand and profit. Unlike Ricardo, Malthus supported the active encouragement of demand, and in so doing was seen by John Maynard Keynes as a forerunner of his own thought. "Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand, and hence as a palliative to economic… Read More

London: John Murray,, 1820. In the original boards First edition of the author's major late work, a re-examination of his economic work in the early 1800s, and a point-by-point response to David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy (1817). Notably, Keynes held that "if economics had followed Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in an artificial groove, the world would be a much wiser and richer place" (ODNB). In the Principles, Malthus summarizes his earlier writing on rents, currency, food prices, and corn laws. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo, with whom he disagreed about the nature of labour, demand, and profit. "In his Principles of Political Economy, Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand, and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation, he thought, must… Read More

London: John Murray,, 1820. Countering Ricardo, later praised by Keynes First edition, a scarce uncut copy. The Principles was Malthus's broadest treatment of issues in political economy, conceived as a series of tracts on economic questions, rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise as with his Principle of Population. Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo, with whom he had been having an ongoing debate about the nature of labour, demand, and profit. "In his 'Principles of Political Economy', Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand, and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation, he thought, must balance the power to produce and the will to consume" (DSB). "The Principles had only a limited impact at the time, and was severely criticized by J. R. McCulloch and Ricardo; the latter prepared extensive critical notes. But more recently it has received greater recognition,… Read More

London, John Murray, 1820. . First edition; 8vo; small ownership stamp to lower outside corner of title-page, small, early 20th century bookseller's label to lower outside corner of verso of upper free endpaper, a little age-toning and small ink smudge to title, otherwise near-fine, nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, rubbed at extremities, spine faded, a very good copy; vi, 601 pp. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to establish his own position against that of Ricardo, with whom he had been having an ongoing debate about the nature of labour, demand and profit. 'In his 'Principles of Political Economy', Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means of increasing effective demand and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation, he thought, must balance the power to produce and the will to consume' (DSB).'The Principles had only a limited impact at the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1820. First edition of this classic work regarding nature of labor, demand and profit. Octavo, original boards, retaining the original paper spine label. In very good condition. Ownership inscription from the African Society and stamp to the title page. Rare in the original boards.

London: John Murray, 1820. If Only Malthus, Instead of Ricardo, Had Been the Parent Stem From Which Nineteenth-Century Economics Proceeded, What a Much Wiser and Richer Place the World Would be Today" MALTHUS, T[homas] R[obert]. Principles of Political Economy. Considered with a View to Their Practical Application. London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Octavo. vi, [1]2-601[602]. Original boards, uncut. With original paper label on spine. Hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Old bookplate from "The Library of Victoria" with no other library markings. A very clean copy, internally fine. Very scarce in original boards. Housed in a custom quarter black morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. First edition of Malthus' principal contribution to economic theory. Schumpeter describes Malthus' work in relation to that of his predecessors, Adam Smith and Ricardo, as follows: "Ricardo's work...started with the Wealth of Nations and recoined the latter's theoretical contents by a method that… Read More