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...

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...

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...

Thomas Robert Malthus, cleric, moral scientist and economist, was born near Guildford, Surrey. He entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1784, graduated in mathematics as ninth Wrangler in 1788 and was a non-resident fellow of his college from 1793 until...

1766-1834 English Economist Thomas Malthus was one of the most important English economic theorists of the early nineteenth century. He is best known for his influential work, An Essay on the Principle of Population, first published anonymously in...

Economist Thomas Robert Malthus advocated controlling population growth to avoid food shortages. Economist 1766-1834 Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and demographer,...

A leading classical economist who played a major part in founding modern DEMOGRAPHY. After Cambridge, where he was a student and fellow of Jesus College (1784–1805), for the rest of his career he was professor of modern history and political...

The British demographer and political economist Thomas Robert Malthus, FRS (13 February, 1766 – 23 December, 1834), has become best-known for his influential views on population growth. Modern commentators generally refer to him as Thomas Malthus,...

Population: Global warming, we've said repeatedly, isn't about science. Those who push us to take sweeping actions to curb warming often have a much different, far more radical agenda.Take the innocent-sounding group, Californians for Population Stabilization. With Earth Day set to arrive this Sunday, they've...

When he undertook a task, Charles Darwin had a rule: Keep it simple. Following that rule was the best way to share his theories, he figured. So when he wrote his most important book, he did so in an accessible style for readers who weren't...

In the following excerpt, Hollander explores Malthus's version of theological utilitarianism, claiming that his roles as Christian moralist and political economist were not incompatible.

In the following essay, originally published in October, 1931, Cady examines pre-1840 American criticism of Malthus's theories, contending that much of it is based on misreadings.

In the following essay, Ross discusses the historical, political, and economic factors behind Malthus's theory of population which, Ross claims, provide justification for the system of private property as it existed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.