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Thomas Robert Malthus


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Who was Thomas Malthus?

Thomas Robert Malthus (born 1766) was a British Reverand and Scholar,. He was nfluential in Political Economy and Demography. Between 1798 and 1826 Malthus published six editions of his famous treatise. THOMAS wrote a book called "AN ESSAY ON PRINCIPAL OF POPULATION." He became known for his theories on population and factors on population growth.


Which economic theorists believed that overpopulation would cause labor to overwork the land?

Thomas Robert Malthus believed that overpopulation would cause labor to overwork the land.


What were the theories of Thomas Malthus?

Population will always grow faster than the food supply, leading to periods of overpopulation, war, and famine. At that time population of England was increasing rapidly.Thomas Robert Malthus wrote in his 1798 book Essay on Principle of Population "by nature, human foods increases in a slow arithmatical ratio but man himself increases in a quick geometrical ratio unless want and vice stopped him." Human population is supposed to double in every 25 years.Food is necessary to the life of man.Human population increases in geometrical progression like 2,4,8,16 but food production increases in arithmatical progression like 2,4,6,8.Population always increases when the means of subsistence increases prevented by powerful and obvious checks. In other words size of population is determine by the availability of food.