Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus
The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth14 February 1766
littles attention opponents
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
men earth population
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
men might ratios
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
men race earth
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
thinking foundation found
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
mean numbers people
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
air class appearance
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.
men able earth
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.