An Essay on the Principle of Population

Name: An Essay on the Principle of Population
Author: Thomas Robert Malthus

by Thomas Robert Malthus

Influential economic theory positing population outpaces food supply causing scarcity

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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.

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