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Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (–)
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Thomas Robert MalthusFRS (; 13/14 February – 29 månad )[1] was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.[2]
In his book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the population, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in vända restored the original per capita production level. In other words, humans had a propensity to use abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view and stance that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre". Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship, want and greater susceptibility to war, famine, and
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus () was the founder of population studies and one of the greatest English economists of the 19th century.
Robert Malthus profoundly influenced legislation governing the state’s approach to poverty and unemployment and was the first professor of economics at any English higher education institution.
Early life
The son of a country gentleman, Malthus was educated privately at home and by tutors, except for the year he spent at the Dissenting Academy at Warrington. The last of the tutors was Gilbert Wakefield, a former Fellow of Jesus and the finest classical scholar to emerge from the College before the 20th century.
At Jesus College
It was on Wakefield’s recommendation that Robert Malthus came to the College. His Tutor at Jesus was William Frend, another radical, who was soon to declare himself a Unitarian. Having been a precocious and mischievous teenager, at Cambridge Malthus became a serious student.
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Thomas Robert Malthus, a British cleric turned economist, was born on February 13, (died ). Malthus is famous for a small booklet he published in , entitled An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. Originally published anonymously, Malthus later took credit for the work and wrote a continuous string of expansions and updates throughout his life.
In the booklet, Malthus made the fundamental argument that the human species is destined for a recurring series of tragedies—war, famine, disease. The cause? Humans (and all species) reproduce so fast that they outstrip the production of resources—chiefly food—to support them. The consequence of too many people and not enough food is, therefore, tragedy. This concept—now called Malthusian or Neo-Malthusian—became the centerpiece of environmental thought in the s as ecologi