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Thomas Robert Malthus

Born

in Surrey, England

February 13, 1766

Died

December 23, 1834

Genre

Political Economy, Demography

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The Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.

His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. 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". As an Anglican cleric, Malthus saw this situation as div ...more

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	An Essay on the Principle of Population 3.42 avg rating — 1,862 ratings — published 1798 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings 3.32 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Principles of Political Economy 3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1820 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Effects Of The Corn Laws 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2004 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reisedagbok fra Norge 1799 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Population: The First Essay 3.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1798 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature and Progress of Rent liked it 3.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1815 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works of Thomas Malthus 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Essay on the Principle of Population - Vol. 1 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Essays on Population by Thomas Robert Malthus, Julian Huxley, Frederick Osborn 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1958	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Thomas Robert Malthus (?)

“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue,
but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a
conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced
eye or an inherent spleen of disposition.”
― Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

tags: population-control, population-growth, tragedy-of-commons

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“The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty with which we may expect the same effects from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason.”
― T.R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

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“man as he really is, inert, sluggish, and averse from labour, unless compelled by necessity”
― T.R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

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