Biography thomas robert malthus en

The Rev. Thomas Robert MalthusFRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834),^[1] was a Britishwriter on political economy and population.^[2][3] Malthus popularised the economic theory of rent, and was the first to use the phrase struggle for existence.^[4]

Views on population

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See the main article: Malthusianism

Malthus is famous for his theories about population: its increase or decrease in response to various factors.

There were six editions of his An Essay on the Principle of Population, published from 1798 to 1826. He said that sooner or later population gets checked, by famine, disease, and widespread mortality.

He wrote in opposition to many who saw society as improving, and (in principle) as perfectible.^[5]viiiWilliam Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet, for example, believed in the possibility of almost limitless improvement of society.

So, in a more complex way,