SOURCE: Gilbert, Geoffrey. “Economic Growth and the Poor in Malthus' Essay on Population.” History of Political Economy 12, no. 1 (spring 1980): 83-96.
In the following essay, Gilbert explains Malthus's changing views on the effects of economic growth on the working poor in the 1798 and succeeding editions of the Essay on Population.
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