The complete online text of The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn: intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws" by Thomas Malthus.

Thomas Robert Malthus was born at his family's country home in Wotton, Surrey, on February 13, 1766. He was raised in a wealthy family, the sixth child of seven born to Daniel and Henrietta Malthus. His father, an eccentric liberal landowner who enjoyed...

The English economist Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was of the classical school and was the first to direct attention to the danger of overpopulation in the modern world. Thomas Malthus was born at the Rookery near Guilford, Surrey, a small estate ow...

Thomas Robert Malthus had an enormous impact on scholars of biology, human populations and economics. Malthus was born southwest of London in Surrey. He entered Jesus College at Cambridge in 1784 and graduated four years later, at which time he was ordai...