E. A. Wrigley
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Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley, (born 17 August 1931), commonly known as Tony Wrigley, is a historical demographer. Wrigley and Peter Laslett
co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964.
Among many publications, Wrigley is known for the book Continuity, Chance and Change, published in 1988, in which he explained why Malthus was wrong about the law of diminishing returns slowing population growth.
He was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
from 1994 until 2000, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980, serving as president from 1997–2001.
Peter Laslett
-Biography:Born Thomas Peter Ruffell Laslett and educated at the Watford Grammar School for Boys, Peter Laslett studied history at St John's College, Cambridge in 1935 and graduated with a double first in 1938. During the war he learned Japanese and worked at Bletchley Park and Washington decoding...
co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964.
Among many publications, Wrigley is known for the book Continuity, Chance and Change, published in 1988, in which he explained why Malthus was wrong about the law of diminishing returns slowing population growth.
He was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...
from 1994 until 2000, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980, serving as president from 1997–2001.
Publications
- Industrial growth and population change; a regional study of the coalfield areas of north-west Europe in the later nineteenth century, Cambridge University Press 1961,
- An introduction to English historical demography from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, editor,Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London) 1966
- Population and history, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London) 1969, ISBN 0303175796
- Nineteenth-century society essays in the use of quantitative methods for the study of social data, editor, Cambridge University Press 1972, ISBN 0521084121
- Population private choice and public policy, The Lindsey Press (London) 1972, The Essex Hall lecture
- Identifying people in the past, Arnold (London) 1973, ISBN 0713156945
- People, cities, and wealth: the transformation of traditional society, Blackwell 1987, ISBN 0631139915
- The population history of England, 1541-1871: a reconstruction, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass) 1981, ISBN 0674690079
- People Cities and Wealth: The Transformation of Traditional Society, Blackwell Publishers 1989, ISBN 0631165568
- Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England, Cambridge University Press 1990, ISBN 0521396573
- Poverty, Progress, and Population, Cambridge University Press 2004, ISBN 0521822785
- English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837, with R. S. Davies, J. E. Oeppen and R. S. Schofield, Cambridge University Press 2005, ISBN 052102238X
- Industrial Growth and Population Change, Cambridge University Press 2007, ISBN 0521025532