UGST4077 - Cultures of Quantification 2021/22 Winter
Section outline
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Review of Thomas Malthus, "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the future Improvement of Society," The Monthly Review (September 1798): 1-9. [First edition OCR text] [Later editions in French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Italian] [a Czech summary]
Mary Poovey, "Thomas Malthus and the revaluation of numerical representation," in A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (1998), 278-295.