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Cover of The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus

Edited by E. A. Wrigley; David Souden

Published: 2010
DOI: 10.4324/9781851960019
Set ISBN: 9781851960019

Set Contents

Principles of Political Economy Part I

Malthus published his Principles of political economy in 1820; and in 1836, after his death, Pickering published a second edition, which incorporated many changes to the text, both major and minor. Through the 1820s, Malthus had tinkered with his text, the alterations being often of minor wording, sometimes of considerable substance, which his anonymous posthumous editor (usually identified as his younger friend John Cazenove) incorporated. It is the text of 1836 which is set here, with the substantial volume of variations between that and the 1820 version set as footnotes or, in the case of longer sections, in sequence at the end of volume 6. (Some editorial interventions were made by Cazenove, amplifying or occasionally qualifying Malthus’s text. These are set as ordinary textual footnotes, followed by – Ed., 1836.) The concordance of chapter and section titles which follows demonstrates the degree of reordering and renaming of parts which helped transform the first version of the Principles into the second.

Volume Contents

Front Matter
Introduction to volumes five and six By David Souden
Concordance of chapter and section titles between the first and second editions
Notes on the printing of variant texts
Principles of political economy, 1836: With variant readings from the first edition, 1820 By Thomas Robert Malthus
- Prelims
- Introduction
- I
  
  Of the definitions of wealth and of productive labour
- II
  
  On the nature, causes, and measures of value
- III
  
  Of the rent of land
- IV
  
  Of the wages of labour
- V
  
  Of the profits of capital
- VI
  
  Of the distinction between wealth and value