The Population Theory
Thomas Robert Malthus
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"Malthus" redirects here. For demon, see Malthus (demon). Thomas Robert Malthus | Classical economics | Thomas Robert Malthus | Born | 14 February 1766
Surrey, England | Died | 29 December 1834 (aged 68)
Bath, England | Field | Demography, macroeconomics | Opposed | William Godwin, Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Ricardo | Influences | David Ricardo, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi | Influenced | Charles Darwin, Paul R. Ehrlich, Francis Place, Raynold Kaufgetz, Garrett Hardin, John Maynard Keynes, Pierre François Verhulst, Alfred Russel Wallace, William Thompson, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong | Contributions | Malthusian growth model |
The Reverend (Thomas) Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834[1]) was a British cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography.[2] Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.[3]
Malthus became widely known for his theories about change in population. His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible.[4] He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".[5] As a cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour.[6] Malthus wrote:
That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence,
That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and,
That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice.[7]
Malthus placed the longer-term stability of the
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
"Malthus" redirects here. For demon, see Malthus (demon). Thomas Robert Malthus | Classical economics | Thomas Robert Malthus | Born | 14 February 1766
Surrey, England | Died | 29 December 1834 (aged 68)
Bath, England | Field | Demography, macroeconomics | Opposed | William Godwin, Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Ricardo | Influences | David Ricardo, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi | Influenced | Charles Darwin, Paul R. Ehrlich, Francis Place, Raynold Kaufgetz, Garrett Hardin, John Maynard Keynes, Pierre François Verhulst, Alfred Russel Wallace, William Thompson, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong | Contributions | Malthusian growth model |
The Reverend (Thomas) Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834[1]) was a British cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography.[2] Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.[3]
Malthus became widely known for his theories about change in population. His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible.[4] He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".[5] As a cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour.[6] Malthus wrote:
That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence,
That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and,
That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice.[7]
Malthus placed the longer-term stability of the
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