1257004 OVER-POPULATION AND ITS REMEDY; OR, AN INQUIRY INTO THE EXTENT AND CAUSES OF THE DISTRESS PREVAILING AMONG THE LABOURING CLASSES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. William Thomas Thornton.
OVER-POPULATION AND ITS REMEDY; OR, AN INQUIRY INTO THE EXTENT AND CAUSES OF THE DISTRESS PREVAILING AMONG THE LABOURING CLASSES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.
OVER-POPULATION AND ITS REMEDY; OR, AN INQUIRY INTO THE EXTENT AND CAUSES OF THE DISTRESS PREVAILING AMONG THE LABOURING CLASSES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

OVER-POPULATION AND ITS REMEDY; OR, AN INQUIRY INTO THE EXTENT AND CAUSES OF THE DISTRESS PREVAILING AMONG THE LABOURING CLASSES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1846. First Edition. Octavo, 446 pages; VG; rebound in brown cloth and leatherette with paneled spine; ; ex-library book with stamps on back of title page and last page; strong binding; dusty edges; paper faded and clean; text clean; ; shelved in Case 10.

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Covers the evidences of over population and its causes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Thornton downplayed the importance of emigration and disapproved of state interference, but encouraged subdivision of the land. In this work, Thornton refers to and praises Mill's work Principles of Political Economy, and contests the views of John Ramsay McCulloch,[9] most notably, the validity of comparisons of prosperity between the medieval and modern laboring classes. [wikipedia]

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