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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766 – 1834)

MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766 – 1834)

1766 – 1834

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1798 CE

#1693

An essay on the principle of population, as it affects the future improvement of society.

MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766 – 1834)
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766 – 1834)

Malthus laid down the principle that populations increase in geometrical ratio, but that subsistence increases only in arithmetical ratio. He argued that a stage is reached where increase of populations must be limite…