Alison, Archibald. The Principles of Population and Their Connection to Human Happiness. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1840
Original dark green cloth with printed paper spine labels., xix, [1], 572; viii, 544 pp.
Spine ends worn in several places, hinges of Volume I just starting. Labels lightly browned, and one chipped at corner. Overall a very good copy, tight and clean., A refutation of Malthus by Sir Archibald Alison (1792-1867), historian and lawyer and son of the writer on aesthetics of the same name (1757-1839). The present work, written over a twenty year period, advocates a program of poor relief, diffusion of property, and penal reform., Kress C -5068. Schumpeter, p. 584.
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