A report on Thomas Robert Malthus
English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography.
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Malthusianism
5 linksIdea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population die off.
Idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population die off.
These concepts derive from the political and economic thought of the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, as laid out in his 1798 writings, An Essay on the Principle of Population.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
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The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.
Charles Darwin
4 linksEnglish naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Continuing his research in London, Darwin's wide reading now included the sixth edition of Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population.
David Ricardo
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David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Robert Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill.
Alfred Russel Wallace
2 linksBritish naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.
Wallace spent many hours at the library in Leicester: he read An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus, and one evening he met the entomologist Henry Bates.
Political Economy Club
3 linksWorld's oldest economics association founded by James Mill and a circle of friends in 1821 in London, for the purpose of coming to an agreement on the fundamental principles of political economy.
World's oldest economics association founded by James Mill and a circle of friends in 1821 in London, for the purpose of coming to an agreement on the fundamental principles of political economy.
David Ricardo, James Mill, Thomas Malthus (the only one holding an academic post at the time), and Robert Torrens were among the original luminaries.
Harriet Martineau
2 linksEnglish social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist.
English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist.
Martineau relied on Malthus to form her view of the tendency of human population to exceed its means of subsistence.
Political economy
1 linksStudy of how economic and political systems are linked.
Study of how economic and political systems are linked.
The earliest works of political economy are usually attributed to the British scholars Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, although they were preceded by the work of the French physiocrats, such as François Quesnay (1694–1774) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781).
Corn Laws
1 linksThe Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846.
The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846.
The political economist Thomas Malthus believed this to be a fair price, and that it would be dangerous for Britain to rely on imported corn because lower prices would reduce labourers' wages, and manufacturers would lose out due to the decrease of purchasing power of landlords and farmers.
Richard Jones (economist)
2 linksRichard Jones (1790, in Tunbridge Wells – 20 January 1855, in Hertford Heath) was an English economist who criticised the theoretical views of David Ricardo and T. R. Malthus on economic rent and population.