Thomas Malthus

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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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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 Malthus
fieldOfWork demography
political economy
population studies
fullName 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 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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Alfred Russel Wallace
Book I: Of Production ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Charles Darwin
David Ricardo ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Herbert Spencer
John Maynard Keynes ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Nassau William Senior ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Paul R. Ehrlich ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Principles of Political Economy ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
The Population Bomb
influencedBy
An Essay on the Principle of Population ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent
Principles of Political Economy ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Principles of Political Economy
author
Thomas Malthus ("Malthus")
Thomas Malthus ("Malthus")
familyName
Emily Malthus ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Henry Malthus ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
father
Thomas Malthus ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
Thomas Malthus ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
fullName
Adam Smith ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
The Wealth of Nations
influenced
Rookery, near Guildford, Surrey, England ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
associatedWith
classical economics ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
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Thomas
hasNotableBearer
Rookery, near Guildford, Surrey, England ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
hasNotableResident
Harriet Eckersall ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
marriedToNotablePerson
Malthusian catastrophe ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
namedAfter
Emily Malthus ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
notableFamilyMember
Political Economy Club ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
notableMember
Essays in Biography ("Robert Malthus")
notablePersonProfiled
Warrington Academy
notablePupil
Emily Malthus ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
parent
Malthusian catastrophe ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
proposedBy
Joseph Johnson
publishedAuthor
Corn Laws debate
significantPerson
Harriet Eckersall ("Thomas Robert Malthus")
spouse

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