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The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.Malthus became widely known for his theories about change in population. His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe.

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birth date
1766-02-13, 1766-02-14
birth place
England, Surrey
death date
1834-12-23, 1834-12-29
death place
England, Bath Somerset
depiction description (caption)
Thomas Robert Malthus
field
Macroeconomics, Demography
influenced
Alfred Russel Wallace, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Francis Place, Raynold Kaufgetz, Pierre François Verhulst, John Maynard Keynes, Garrett Hardin, Paul R. Ehrlich, William Thompson (philosopher), Charles Darwin
influenced by
David Ricardo, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi
LCCN Id
n/79/021716

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