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Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus

British political economist

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Birthdate
February 14, 1766
Birthplace
Westcott, Surrey
Westcott, Surrey
Date of Death
December 29, 1834
Place of Death
Bath, Somerset
Bath, Somerset
Nationality
England
England
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Author of
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The pamphlets
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Principles of political economy
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Occasional papers of T.R. Malthus on Ireland, population, and political economy, from contemporary journals
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Population
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Population
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Definitions in political econonmy
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An Essay On The Principle Of Population - And - A Summary View Of The Principle Of Population
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An essay on the principles of population, or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness
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Educated at
Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
Warrington Academy
Warrington Academy
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Also Known As
Thomas Malthus
Occupation
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Statistician
Author
Author
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Essayist
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Economist
Economist
Scientist
Scientist
Mathematician
Mathematician
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Open Library ID
OL163232A17
VIAF
7115417

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Birth Name
Thomas Robert Malthus
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Notable Work
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Malthusianism
An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population
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Malthusian growth model
Malthusian catastrophe
Malthusian catastrophe
Wikidata ID
Q13526

Thomas Malthus, in full Thomas Robert Malthus, (born February 13/14, 1766, Rookery, near Dorking, Surrey, England—died December 29, 1834, St. Catherine, near Bath, Somerset), English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. This thinking is commonly referred to as Malthusianism.

Academic development

Malthus was born into a prosperous family. His father, a friend of the Scottish philosopher and skeptic David Hume, was deeply influenced by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose book Émile (1762) may have been the source of the elder Malthus’s liberal ideas about educating his son. The young Malthus was educated largely at home until his admission to Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1784. There he studied a wide range of subjects and took prizes in Latin and Greek, graduating in 1788. He earned his master of arts degree in 1791, was elected a fellow of Jesus College in 1793, and took holy orders in 1797. His unpublished pamphlet “The Crisis,” written in 1796, supported the newly proposed Poor Laws, which recommended establishing workhouses for the impoverished. This view ran somewhat counter to the views on poverty and population that Malthus published two years later.

Professional achievements

In 1804 Malthus married Harriet Eckersall, and in 1805 he became a professor of history and political economy at the East India Company’s college at Haileybury, Hertfordshire. It was the first time in Great Britain that the words political economy had been used to designate an academic office. Malthus lived quietly at Haileybury for the remainder of his life, except for a visit to Ireland in 1817 and a trip to the Continent in 1825. In 1811 he met and became close friends with the English economist David Ricardo.

In 1819 Malthus was elected a fellow of the Royal Society; in 1821 he joined the Political Economy Club, whose members included Ricardo and the Scottish economist James Mill; and in 1824 he was elected one of the 10 royal associates of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1833 he was elected to the French Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and to the Royal Academy of Berlin. Malthus was one of the cofounders, in 1834, of the Statistical Society of London.

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An Essay on the Principle of

Population

Thomas Malthus

http://www.esp.org/books/malthus/population/malthus.pdf

Book

1798

Population: Thomas Malthus 1798

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93CgZlDXgo

Web

April 2, 2013

Thomas Malthus and population growth | Cosmology & Astronomy | Khan Academy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ywppAJ1xs

Web

December 28, 2011

Thomas Robert Malthus on the nature and progress of rent, 1815 : Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Thomas Malthus

https://archive.org/details/thomasrobertmalt00malt/mode/2up

Web

1903

WHO AM I? Thomas Malthus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWg-a25kSxs

Web

January 23, 2021

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