Thomas Malthus

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clergyman demographer economist human political economist

Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	clergyman ⓘ demographer ⓘ economist ⓘ human ⓘ political economist ⓘ
academicDegree	Master of Arts ⓘ
birthDate	1766-02-13 ⓘ
birthPlace	Rookery, near Guildford, Surrey, England ⓘ
causeOfDeath	heart disease ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
dateOfMarriage	1804 ⓘ
deathDate	1834-12-23 ⓘ
deathPlace	Bath, Somerset, England ⓘ
educatedAt	Jesus College, Cambridge ⓘ Warrington Academy (tutored/early education context) ⓘ
employer	East India Company College ⓘ
ethnicGroup	English ⓘ
familyName	Thomas Malthus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Malthus
fieldOfWork	demography ⓘ political economy ⓘ population studies ⓘ
fullName	Thomas Malthus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Thomas Robert Malthus
givenName	Thomas ⓘ
hasChild	Emily Malthus ⓘ Henry Malthus ⓘ
influenced	Alfred Russel Wallace ⓘ Charles Darwin ⓘ David Ricardo ⓘ Herbert Spencer ⓘ John Maynard Keynes ⓘ
influencedBy	Adam Smith ⓘ David Hume ⓘ Richard Price ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	Political Economy Club ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ
middleName	Robert ⓘ
movement	classical economics ⓘ
notableIdea	Malthusian catastrophe ⓘ Malthusian theory of population ⓘ preventive and positive checks on population ⓘ principle that population tends to grow faster than food supply ⓘ
notableWork	An Essay on the Principle of Population ⓘ An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent ⓘ Principles of Political Economy ⓘ
occupation	Anglican cleric ⓘ academic ⓘ demographer ⓘ economist ⓘ
placeOfBurial	Bath Abbey, Bath, England ⓘ
positionHeld	Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge ⓘ Professor of History and Political Economy at the East India Company College ⓘ
publicationDateOfNotableWork	1798 (An Essay on the Principle of Population, first edition) ⓘ 1803 (An Essay on the Principle of Population, greatly expanded second edition) ⓘ
religion	Anglican Communion ⓘ surface form: Anglicanism
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Harriet Eckersall ⓘ
theory	population grows geometrically while food supply grows arithmetically ⓘ population is checked by famine, disease, and war ⓘ
workLocation	Haileybury, Hertfordshire, England ⓘ

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent → author → Thomas Malthus ⓘ

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Rookery, near Guildford, Surrey, England → hasNotableResident → Thomas Malthus ⓘ

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An Outline of the Science of Political Economy → influencedBy → Thomas Malthus ⓘ

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