num_pages: 493
description: Weyland challenges Malthus's assumption of a 'tendency' of human populations to double every twenty-five years unless checked. Weyland's claims provoked a a reply from Malthus in the appendix to the 1817 edition of the Essay .
language: English
title: The principles of population and production as they are affected by the progress of society with a view to moral and political consequences
titlecomplete: The principles of population and production as they are affected by the progress of society with a view to moral and political consequences (Reprints of economic classics)
publisher: A. M. Kelley