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dc.contributor.authorWeber, Lina
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-14T11:30:08Z
dc.date.available2021-06-14T11:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-05
dc.identifier.citationWeber , L 2021 , ' Doom and gloom : the future of world at the end of the eighteenth century ' , History , vol. 106 , no. 371 , pp. 409-428 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13173en
dc.identifier.issn0018-2648
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 274213109
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: faefa438-0373-40be-949e-62f4c59433a7
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8397-3320/work/95772807
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85107351453
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000658255400001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23351
dc.description.abstractThis article challenges the widely held assumption that Thomas Robert Malthus was a lonely pessimist in the late eighteenth century. Interpreting the sources that Malthus had used to write his Essay on the Principle of Population as predictions of the future, the article argues that Malthus inherited a sense of looming doom from his predecessors. In the second half of the eighteenth century, David Hume, Adam Smith, Richard Price, and Thomas Paine predicted Britain's ruin through national bankruptcy. Although Malthus, too, expressed anxiety about excessive growth, he changed the parameters by worrying about overpopulation, rather than overspending. By considering Malthus in the context in which he originally formulated his famous principle of population, this article sheds new light on what he was doing when he first published his Essay in 1798.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofHistoryen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 The Authors. History published by The Historical Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.en
dc.subjectDA Great Britainen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccDAen
dc.titleDoom and gloom : the future of world at the end of the eighteenth centuryen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13173
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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