Thomas malthus, english economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. An 18thcentury british philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about population growth. These checks would lead to the malthusian catastrophe. Thomas malthus is the most immediate reference when it comes to population science. Thomas robert malthus simple english wikipedia, the free. The author of the bicentennial essay on population 1798 was the main disseminator of one of the most. The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced eye or an inherent spleen of disposition. His father was daniel malthus, a gentleman of good family and independent fortune, attached to a country life, but. Thomas robert malthus was born in 1766, at the rookery, in the county of surrey, a small but beautiful estate at that time in the possession of his family, and now well known throughout the neighbourhood of guildford and dorking. Principles of political economy online library of liberty. Thomas robert malthus frs february 1766 23 december 1834, was a british writer on political economy and population. As robert heilbroner has so aptly observed, economics has produced a handful of men whose.
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