Thomas Robert Malthus
Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population argued that population grows faster than food supply, threatening perpetual misery. His gloomy thesis stimulated Darwin's theory of natural selection and gave economics its reputation as the dismal science.
Works
- An Essay on the Principle of PopulationInfluential economic theory positing population outpaces food supply causing scarcity
- Principles of Political EconomyFoundational political economy work analyzing value, distribution, and consumption
- The Measure of ValueEconomic treatise examining methods for determining and measuring economic value