Progress, Poverty, and Population

Download or read book Progress, Poverty, and Population written by John Avery and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows that debate, which also involved people such as Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Ricardo, Mill and Darwin. In the final chapter, the question of who was right is examined from the vantage-point of our own times, while particular attention is given to the close connection between population pressure and war.