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  Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834).
Malthus asserted that there was only two things that kept population down: vice and misery, two necessary evils (their agents being war, famine, and disease).
Incidentally, Malthus, having become a fellow of the College in 1793, was to act at one point as a judge and sentencer of a junior student who had been absent without leave from the College; the young student was Coleridge, having entered the College in 1791.
Malthus was to write and publish other works for which he is not as well known, as for example, in 1815, there came out, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent," and, in 1820, "Principles of Political Economy." Walter Bagehot was not too much impressed, overall, with Malthus as an economist.
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  Thomas Robert Malthus - LoveToKnow 1911
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1766-1834), English economist, was born in 1766 at the Rookery, near Guildford, Surrey, a small estate owned by his father, Daniel Malthus, a gentleman of good family and independent fortune, of considerable culture, the friend and correspondent of Rousseau and one of his executors.
Again, it is surely plain enough that the apprehension by individuals of the evils of poverty, or a sense of duty to their possible offspring, may retard the increase of population, and has in all civilized communities operated to a certain extent in that way.
Malthus has in more modern times derived a certain degree of reflected lustre from the rise and wide acceptance of the Dar, winian hypothesis.
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  EH.Net Encyclopedia: Thomas Robert Malthus
Malthus argued that the best means of escaping what has subsequently been called "the Malthusian trap" was for people to adopt the "preventive check" of limiting their fertility by marrying later in life.
Malthus himself married Harriet Eckersall at the age of 38 (late for the period) in 1804, a year after he became rector of Walesby, Lincolnshire.
Malthus' predictions proved inaccurate chiefly because he failed to foresee the enormous impact that science and technology was to have in squeezing increasing amounts of food out of each hectare of land.
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Thomas Robert Malthus (14 febbraio 1766, Roocherry (Surrey) - 23 dicembre 1834, St. Catherine, Bath), pastore anglicano e studioso inglese di economia.
Nel 1798 pubblicò "An essay of the principle of the population as it affects the future improvement of society" (Saggio sul principio della popolazione), in cui sostenne che l’incremento demografico avrebbe spinto a coltivare terre sempre meno fertili con conseguente penuria di generi di sussistenza a arresto dello sviluppo economico.
Malthus pubblicò inoltre Investigazione delle cause del presente alto prezzo delle derrate (1800) e Saggio sulla rendita (1815).
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Malthus however looked at fertility from a new perspective and convinced most economist that even though high fertility might increase the gross output it tended to reduce output per capita.
However, Malthus' theory was also a key influence on both of the co-founders of modern evolutionary theory Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
Malthus was buried at Bath Abbey, in England.
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 Thomas Malthus - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus (February, 1766 – December 23, 1834), who is usually known as Thomas Malthus, although he preferred to be known as "Robert Malthus," was an English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views.
Malthus refused to have his portrait done until 1833 because of embarrassment over a cleft palate, a birth defect common in his family.
They note that despite the predictions of Malthus and the Neo-Malthusians, massive geometric population growth in the 20th century has not resulted in a Malthusian catastrophe, largely due to the influence of technological advances (especially the green revolution).
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 Thomas Malthus
Again, it is surely plain enough that the apprehension by individuals of the evils of poverty, or a sense of duty to their possible offspring, may retard the increase of population, and has in all civilized communities operated to a certain extent in that way.
Malthus had undoubtedly the great merit of having called public attention in a striking and impressive way to a subject which had neither theoretically nor practically been sufficiently considered.
Thus Thomas Chalmers "reviews seriatim and gravely sets aside all the schemes usually proposed for the amelioration of the economic condition of the people" on the ground that an increase of comfort will lead to an increase of numbers, and so the last state of things will be worse than the first.
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 Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
In 1804 Malthus married Harriet Eckersall; from 1805 until his death, he was Professor of Political Economy and Modern History at the college of the East India Company at Haileybury except for a visit to Ireland in 1817, and a trip to the Continent in 1825 for health reasons.
In 1819 Malthus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; in 1821 he became a member of the Political Economy Club, whose members included Ricardo and James Mill; in 1824 he was elected as one of the ten royal associates of the Royal Society of Literature.
Malthus was one of the co-founders of the Statistical Society of London in 1834.
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 Thomas Robert Malthus
He was the second son of Daniel Malthus, a country gentleman and avid disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume (both of whom he knew personally).
Malthus entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1784 and was ordained a minister of the Church of England in 1788.
Malthus believed that economic crises were characterized by a general excess supply caused by insufficient consumption.
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 Thomas Malthus Biography and Summary
Thomas Malthus was born at the Rookery near Guilford, Surrey, a small estate ow...
Malthus was born southwest of London in Surrey.
Thomas Robert Malthus was born in 1766 southwest of London in Surrey.
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 Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus was born on February 13, 1766 near Dorking, Surrey, England and died in 1834 in Somerset.
Malthus contributed to this movement by supporting the transition from moral philosophy, in the form of mercantilism, to political economy, in the form of free markets.
Malthus conceives of this additive increase in subsistence based on the availability of land, fertile soil, and (chiefly) labor.
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 BBC - History - Thomas Malthus (1766 - 1834)
In 1819 Malthus was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and two years later he became a member of the Political Economy Club, whose members included David Ricardo and James Mill; in 1824 he was elected as one of the ten royal associates of the Royal Society of Literature.
Malthus was also one of the co-founders of the Statistical Society of London in 1834.
Malthus' most well known work 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' was published in 1798, although he was the author of many pamphlets and other longer tracts including 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent' (1815) and 'Principles of Political Economy' (1820).
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 Thomas Malthus at AllExperts
Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS (February, 1766 – December 23, 1834), who is usually known as Thomas Malthus, although he preferred to be known as "Robert Malthus", was an English demographer and political economist best known for his pessimistic but highly influential views on population growth.
Malthus was proud to include amongst the earliest converts to his population theory the leading creationist and natural theologian, Archdeacon William Paley whose Natural Theology was first published in 1802.
Malthus is widely regarded as the founder of modern demography.
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 Thomas Malthus - Picture - MSN Encarta
Thomas Malthus’s studies on the growth of population led to the development of the field of demography.
Malthus believed that the population would naturally increase faster than the amount of food that could be produced to feed them.
Malthus specifically suggested that people marry later and have small families.
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 Thomas Malthus - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Thomas Robert Malthus (Dorking, 14 de febrero de 1766 - Bath, 23 de diciembre de 1834) fue un economista inglés, perteneciente a la corriente de pensamiento clásica, considerado el padre de la Demografía.
Malthus realizó también importantes aportes a la teoría del valor y su medida, y a la teoría de las crisis y el subconsumo, por lo que John Maynard Keynes lo consideraba su precursor.
Malthus ha sido descrito por su biógrafo principal como "el hombre mejor ultrajado de su tiempo": efectivamente, y pese a la leyenda popular tanto de su época como posterior (dado el pesimismo de sus proposiciones), fue un hombre de temperamento cariñoso, generoso y gentil.
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 Thomas Malthus
A remark by Kingsley Davis, a United States student of population, that Malthus' theories, apparently founded on so extensive an empirical base, are yet at their weakest with respect to empiricism and at their strongest as a tight and elegant theoretical formulation, has much truth in it as both praise and blame.
In 1819 Malthus was elected a fellow of the Royal Society; in 1821 he became a member of the Political Economy Club, the number of which included Ricardo and James Mill, and in 1824 he was elected one of the 10 royal associates of the Royal Society of Literature.
Malthus was one of the cofounders, in 1834, of the Statistical Society of London.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Thomas Malthus
Malthus was proud to include amongst the earliest converts to his population theory the leading creationist and natural theologian, Archdeacon William Paley whose Natural Theology was first published in 1802.
They note that despite the predictions of Malthus and the Neo-Malthusians, massive geometric population growth in the 20th century has not resulted in a Malthusian catastrophe, largely due to the influence of technological advances and the expansion of the market economy, division of labor, and stock of capital goods.
Malthus is thus regarded by some such as British physicist John Maddox as a failed prophet of doom.
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 Thomas Malthus - MSN Encarta
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), British economist, born near Guildford, Surrey, England, and educated at Jesus College, the University of Cambridge.
Malthus became curate of the parish of Albury in Surrey in 1798 and held this post for a short time.
According to Malthus, population tends to increase faster than the supply of food available for its needs.
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 Malthus, Thomas Robert - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT [Malthus, Thomas Robert], 1766-1834, English economist, sociologist, and pioneer in modern population study.
As checks on population growth, Malthus first accepted only war, famine, and disease, but in his revised work he admitted also the preventive check of "moral restraint." Although his theory caused general controversy, it was later adapted by neo-Malthusians, and its implications influenced classical economists, especially David Ricardo.
However, unlike Ricardo, Malthus did not agree with Jean Baptiste Say 's law of markets, which held that overproduction and unemployment were impossible since supply creates its own demand.
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 Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus' work helped inspire Darwin to refine natural selection by stating a reason for meaningful competition between members of the same species.
Not surprisingly, Malthus, an ordained minister, believed that hunger and disease were aspects of life implemented by God to stop populations from exploding.
Malthus would probably be surprised to see how his essay became central to the type of naturalistic philosophy he disliked.
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Malthus, of course, is best known as the author of a work on the dangers of population growth.
Malthus thought this would continue until the wage is pushed down to "subsistence." That is, working people would be able to earn only enough to support their families and reproduce themselves, on the average, and no more either for larger families or for other endulgences.
The problems were expressed in his new concepts of "diminishing returns," "overpopulation" and "unemployment." Malthus claimed those problems would interrupt the virtuous circle, replace it with a vicious circle of population growth, and, ultimately, bring it to a halt in a "stationary state" of general poverty.
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 Thomas Malthus
Malthus concluded that unless family size was regulated, man's misery of famine would become globally epidemic and eventually consume Man.
Malthus' view that poverty and famine were natural outcomes of population growth and food supply was not popular among social reformers who believed that with proper social structures, all ills of man could be eradicated.
Malthus was a political economist who was concerned about, what he saw as, the decline of living conditions in nineteenth century England.
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 Irony in Thomas Malthus's "Essay on Population"
For example, the first paragraph of Book IV, Chapter V, of the 1826 edition of "An Essay on the Principle of Population" is sometimes quoted to show that Malthus wished genuine harm to the poor.
Malthus does not approve of early marriages, so he is not recommending what he wrote in the paragraph.
Thomas Robert Malthus on "Corrective" and "Preventative" Checks to Population
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 The Ecology of Human Populations: Thomas Malthus
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.
Malthus’ most famous work, which he published in 1798, was An Essay on the Principle of Population as it affects the Future Improvement of Society.
In it, Malthus raised doubts about whether a nation could ever reach a point where laws would no longer be required, and in which everyone lived prosperously and harmoniously.
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