The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History

by Deborah Valenze

A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics

With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300246137
• ISBN13: 9780300246131
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages