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Population, Pauperism, and the Proletariat: Rousseau, Malthus, and the Origins of the Social Question

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Robert Malthus’ notorious argument in his Essay on the Principle of Population about the tendency of the population to expand at a faster rate than the food supply is often described as the product of an argument he had had with his father Daniel, a follower of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. But if we stop thinking about the Essay as an anti-Rousseauist argument and learn to read it instead in terms of a family quarrel (literally!) among different kinds of Rousseauist, then powerful themes come into quite a sharp focus, which help to make historical sense of the transition from the political theories of the eighteenth century to nineteenth century anxieties over “the social question”.

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