Acknowledgments xiv
PROLOGUE 1
Chapter I BACKGROUND
I Family Tree 5
2 Family Circle 10
3 Early Education 16
4 Cambridge 25
5 Albury and Shere 34
Chapter II THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION
1 The Curate of Okewood 40
2 Revolution, War and Pamphlets 46
3 Arguments and Utopias 55
4 The First Essay of 1798 61
5 The First Foreign Tour 69
Chapter III THE GREAT QUARTO OF 1803
I ‘My Garret in Town’ 79
2 The Cause of the High Price of Provisions 86
3 Reading and Travelling 92
4 The Walesby Rectory 98
5 Three Pre-Malthusians 103
6 The Book and its Readers 109
Chapter IV THE POPULATION CONTROVERSIES BEGIN
1 Religion 116
2 Sex 121
3 The Poor 126
4 The Letter to Samuel Whitbread 136
5 The Wrongs of Ireland 142
6 Malthus’s Irish Reviews 149
Chapter V A MARRIED PROFESSOR (1804–10)
1 Mainly about Weddings 160
2 The Founding of the East India College 168
3 Colleagues and Pupils 175
4 Home and Family 184
Chapter VI PAPER MONEY
1 English Pounds and Guineas 190
2 The Bullion Controversy 195
3 Malthus as a Monetary Economist 200
4 The Meeting with Ricardo 208
Chapter VII THE HAILEYBURY CHAMPION (1811–17)
1 The College under Fire 213
2 Outside Activities 222
3 The College Before and After Waterloo 228
4 The Battle for the College 234
Chapter VIII LITERARY MISFORTUNES (1812–15)
1 Notes on Adam Smith 245
2 The First Corn Law Pamphlet 249
3 The Second Corn Law Pamphlet 259
4 The Aftermath 264
5 Unanswered Questions 269
Chapter IX THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
1 The Nature and Progress of Rent 274
2 Rent, Wages and Profits 285
3 Labour and Profits 296
4 Production and Consumption 301
5 The Rival Economists 310
6 The Measure of Value 316
Chapter X THE HEAT OF THE DAY (1817–25)
1 Old Pop at Haileybury 322
2 Okewood Again 330
3 ‘The Christian, kindred, social part’ 335
4 The Public Name 346
5 Clubs and Societies 354
6 French and German Translations 362
CONTINUE
1 The Fifth Edition of the Essay of 1817 369
2 Godwin Again 376
3 The Birth Control Movement Begins 382
4 Emigration 388
5 A Summary View 398
Capter XII DECLINING SUN (1825–34)
1 Family Sorrows 407
2 Floreat Haileyburia 417
3 The Old Celebrity 424
4 Changing Times 434
5 The New Age 443
6 Final Storm 449
EPILOGUE 459
Notes and References 462
Index 501
Biography
Patricia James
