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
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fieldOfWork demography
political economy
population studies
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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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Joseph Johnson publishedAuthor Thomas Malthus
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Book I: Of Production influencedBy Thomas Malthus
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Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population inspiredBy Thomas Malthus
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An Outline of the Science of Political Economy influencedBy Thomas Malthus
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Alison Bashford influencedBy Thomas Malthus
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