Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was a British economist and demographer whose Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) argued that population growth would inevitably outstrip food production, leading to poverty and starvation. His pessimistic theory spawned Malthusianism.
Founded the Malthusian tradition; his population theory shaped economics, demography, and Darwin's thinking about natural selection.
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