Author:Thomas Malthus

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Thomas Malthus (1766–1834)

See biography, media, quotes. English political economist and demographer who expressed views on population growth and noted the potential for populations to increase rapidly.

[edit] Works by

• An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
• An Inquiry Into the Nature and Progress of Rent (1815)
• An Essay on the Principle of Population - Sixth edition (1826)[1]

[edit] Works about Malthus

• Thomas Robert Malthus article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• Mr. Malthus, by William Hazlitt. Essay in The Spirit of the Age.

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