Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[560]. Essay, Bk. III. ch. ix. p. 450.

[561]. Ibid., ch. x. p. 465.

[562]. Ibid., Bk. V. ch. x. p. 468 n.

[563]. Pol. Econ. (1820), pp. 227 seq., (1836) pp. 240 seq.

[564]. Six Centuries of Work and Wages, ch. xii., esp. p. 345.

[565]. The facts of Malthus’ “review” may be roughly given in the following diagram, where the bar indicates the wheat earned per day by the agricultural labourer. The amount for 1350 assumes that the Statute of Labourers was successful.

[566]. 7th ed., pp. 321 seq. (Bk. III. ch. viii.), first in 1817.

[567]. Cf. above, p. 225 n. In Pol. Econ. (1820), p. 432, he says, “All the great results in Pol. Econ. respecting wealth depend upon proportions.” 2nd ed. added (p. 376), “not only there, but throughout the whole range of nature and art.” So he thinks a peck of wheat a good “middle point” of wages. Pol. Econ. (1820), p. 284, (1836) p. 254.

[568]. Essay, 7th ed., Bk. III. ch. ix. pp. 328 seq. Cf. pp. 334, 338.