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Thomas Robert Malthus

1766 - 1834

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Thomas Robert Malthus (; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the population, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. In other words, humans had a propensity to use abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view and stance that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre". Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship, want, and greater susceptibility to war, famine, and disease, a pessimistic view that is sometimes referred to as a Malthusian catastrophe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Robert Malthus is the 5th most popular economist, the 113th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 66th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Economist.

Thomas Robert Malthus is most famous for his theory that population growth will always outpace food production.

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Among economists, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 5 out of 414. Before him are Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and David Ricardo. After him are John Stuart Mill, Herbert A. Simon, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Passy, Vilfredo Pareto, Milton Friedman, and François Quesnay.

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Among people born in 1766, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 2. Before him is John Dalton. After him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Germaine de Staël, Charlotte, Princess Royal, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Nikolay Karamzin, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, William Hyde Wollaston, Johanna Schopenhauer, and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia. Among people deceased in 1834, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 2. Before him is Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. After him are Pedro I of Brazil, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Alois Senefelder, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 113 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth Taylor (1932), Robert Falcon Scott (1868), Edgar the Peaceful (943), David Ricardo (1772), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), and William Gilbert (1544). After him are John Stuart Mill (1806), Herbert Spencer (1820), David Bowie (1947), Edgar Adrian (1889), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), and Lewis Carroll (1832).

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Among economists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 4. Before him are Adam Smith (1723), John Maynard Keynes (1883), and David Ricardo (1772). After him are John Stuart Mill (1806), Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), John Hicks (1904), William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), Lionel Robbins (1898), and Benjamin Graham (1894).

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