Thomas Robert Malthus
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Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
Malthus in 1834
Title page for the second edition of Principles of Political Economy (1836).
The epitaph of Malthus just inside the entrance to Bath Abbey
Essay on the principle of population, 1826
Malthusianism
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Malthusianism is a theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventuall
Thomas Robert Malthus
…propensity to use abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view and stance that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre". Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship, want, and greater susceptibility to war…
Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named
Oded Galor