Thomas Robert Malthus. "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the future Improvement of Society,
with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers"
1st edition
J. Johnson | 1798 | ISBN: n/a | 108 pages | PDF | 5 Mb
In this work Malthus argues that there is a disparity between the rate of growth of population (which increases geometrically) and the rate of growth of agriculture (which increases only arithmetically). He then explores how populations have historically been kept in check.