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  1. The context was the post-war depression; Malthus had a supporter in William Blake, in denying that capital accumulation (saving) was always good in such circumstances, and John Stuart Mill attacked Blake on the fringes of the debate. Ricardo corresponded with Malthus from 1817 about his Principles. He was drawn into considering political ...

  2. Malthusianism, economic theory advanced by the English economist and demographer Thomas Malthus (1766–1834), according to which population growth will always tend to outpace the supply of food.

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  4. Apr 16, 2024 · Thomas Malthus: An 18th-century British philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about population growth. Malthus' population theories were outlined in his book, "An Essay on the Principle ...

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  5. May 18, 2018 · the theory of general unemployment, and. the struggle for existence. Thomas Robert Malthus — always known as “ Robert ” or “ Bob, ” never as “ Thomas ”— was born in Surrey, England, on February 13, 1766, the younger son of Daniel Malthus (1730 – 1800), a country gentleman. He died in Bath on December 29, 1834, and is buried in ...

  6. Thomas Robert Malthus. 1766-1834. M althus was interested in everything about population s. He accumulated figures on births, deaths, age of marriage and childbearing, and economic factors contributing to longevity. His main contribution was to highlight the relationship between food supply and population.

  7. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) demonstrated perfectly the propensity of each generation to overthrow the fondest schemes of the last when he published An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), in which he painted the gloomiest picture imaginable of the human prospect. He argued that.

  8. Thomas Robert Malthus, (born Feb. 13/14, 1766, Rookery, near Dorking, Surrey, Eng.—died Dec. 29, 1834, St. Catherine, near Bath, Somerset), British economist and demographer. Born into a prosperous family, he studied at the University of Cambridge and was elected a fellow of Jesus College in 1793. In 1798 he published An Essay on the ...