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Thomas Malthus, c.1820 © English economist Malthus is best known for his hugely influential theories on population growth. Thomas Robert Malthus was born near Guildford, Surrey in...
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.
The Ecology of Human Populations: Thomas Malthus. Image courtesy of Dennis O’Neil, Palomar College. Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) has a hallowed place in the history of biology, despite the fact that he and his contemporaries thought of him not as a biologist but as a political economist.
Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named. Malthusianism is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.
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.
Malthus is arguably the most misunderstood and misrepresented economist of all time. The adjective “Malthusian” is used today to describe a pessimistic prediction of the lock-step demise of a humanity doomed to starvation via overpopulation.
Malthus, Thomas Robert (1803). An Essay on the Principle of Population or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an enquiry into our Prospects respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it occasions (second ed.).
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