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Alexander Hill Everett, New Ideas on Population, with remark - Lot 144
Alexander Hill Everett, New Ideas on Population, with remarks on the theories of Malthus and Godwin. Translated work on the English edition, published in Boston, 1823, with a new preface by the author. Paris, Renouard, Sautelet, 1826. In-8 paperback of 127 pp., printed cover. First French edition. "Ouvrage devenu rare" (Coquelin et Guillaumin), translated from English by Claude-Joseph Ferry, editor of the Revue Encyclopédique. Alexander Hill Everett (1790-1847), was "one of the most eminent men of the United States," chargé d'affaires in Brussels in 1818 and then ambassador to Spain in 1825, where he remained for four years. On his return to the United States, he became editor and principal owner of the North American Review, of which he had already been a major contributor. Under Polk's presidency, Everett was given a mission to China; as soon as he was installed, he died in Guangzhou in 1847 at the age of 57. In his History of Political Economy (Chapter XXV), Adolphe Blanqui sums up the author's opinion as follows: "Public wealth continues to increase in almost all European countries at the same time as population, and this phenomenon is reproduced in such a general way that an American economist, Mr. Alexander Everett, has gone so far as to consider population growth as the essential cause of its progress of all kinds. He thought that, since the products of labour are always because of labour itself and therefore of the population, the livelihood of individuals depends only on the more or less equitable distribution of profits among employees in the various industries. These industries themselves are developing more and more each day within a limited territory, either through the improvement of agriculture or through the expansion of trade. The young branches, far from exhausting the trunk, give it new vigour and become elements of prosperity, instead of being, as Malthus supposes, a cause of ruin and decay". Freckles, brown spot on the cover. Einaudi, I, 1797
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