The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn Intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws"
by T. R. Malthus
The professed object of the Observations on the Corn Laws, which I published in the spring of 1814, was to state with the strictest impartiality the advantages and disadvantages which, in the actual circumstances of our present situation, were likely to attend the measures under consideration, respecting the trade in corn.
A fair review of both sides of the question, without any attempt to conceal the peculiar evils, whether temporary or permanent, which might belong to each, appeared to me of use, not only to assist in forming an enlightened decision on the subject, but particularly to prepare the public for the specific consequences which were to be expected from that decision, on whatever side it might be made. Such a preparation, from some quarter or other, seemed to be necessary, to prevent those just discontents which would naturally have arisen, if the measure adopted had been attended with results very different from those which had been promised by its advocates, or contemplated by the legislature.
Books by T. R. Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by Which It is Regulated
Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn
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