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Chadwick, Edwin.
The Malthusian Theory... Since Malthus first pronounced his doctrines of population, what have been the chief experiences bearing upon it? [drop-head title].
Publisher: [The Political Economy Club], [East Sheen];
Date of Publication: 1888
Stock Code: 14895
Octavo, stab-stitched pamphlet, pp., 8. Minor scattered foxing, nicks to edges, browned to corners. Edwin Chadwick (1800-90) was a friend of John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, for whom he worked as a literary agent. Chadwick was a reformer of public health and sanitation, a progenitor of the Fabians, whom Mill called one of the ‘organising and contriving minds of the age’. Appraised by his biographers as a singular force in the creation of the Public Health Act (1848), ‘his achievements live on in every home and under every street in Britain’ (ODNB). The Political Economy Club, founded in 1821 by Mill, is the oldest surviving economic debating society. Limited to a membership of 30 only, the Club met regularly at venues across London to debate an economic question. A necessarily rare tract by a significant Victorian reformer on Malthusian economics. £95.00