Thomas

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Thomas is the given name of Thomas Malthus, the influential English economist and demographer known for his theories on population growth and resource limits.

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instanceOf demographer
economist
given name
human
academicDiscipline demography
economics
birthDate 1766-02-13
birthPlace near Guildford, Surrey, England
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
deathDate 1834-12-23
deathPlace Bath, Somerset, England
describedAs influential English economist and demographer
educatedAt Jesus College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
era 18th-century philosophy
19th-century philosophy
ethnicGroup English
familyName Thomas Malthus
surface form: "Malthus"
fieldOfWork demography
political economy
population studies
fullName Thomas Malthus
surface form: "Thomas Robert Malthus"
gender male
givenName Thomas
hasNotableBearer Thomas Malthus
influenced Alfred Russel Wallace
Charles Darwin
David Ricardo
John Maynard Keynes
classical economics
evolutionary theory
knownFor theories on population growth and resource limits
languageOfOrigin Aramaic
languageOfUse English
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement classical economics
notableIdea Malthusian catastrophe
preventive and positive checks on population
notableWork An Essay on the Principle of Population
Principles of Political Economy
occupation Anglican cleric
demographer
economist
positionHeld professor of history and political economy at the East India Company College
religion Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: "Anglicanism"
spouse Harriet Eckersall
theory Malthusian theory of population
population growth tends to outpace food supply
population is checked by famine, disease, and war

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T. S. Eliot givenName Thomas
Thomas Gage givenName Thomas
Thomas Jefferson givenName Thomas
Thomas Malthus givenName Thomas
Thomas givenName Thomas
subject surface form: "Thomas Malthus"

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