num_pages: 481
description: David Ricardo and T. R. Malthus shared an endearing friendship despite a contentious divergence of opinion on many political economic issues. This volume contains the formal remnants of their differences. Ricardo analyzes, issue-by-issue, his points of divergence to Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy. Malthus’s contributions to political economics generally concern his bleak forecast that a geometrically growing population would surpass the arithmetically growing capacity of essential natural resources.
language: English
title: Notes on Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy
titlecomplete: Notes on Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy (The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo)
genres: Economics
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Liberty Fund, Inc.