Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century economist best known for his theories about population growth. Learn more about overpopulation and the Malthusian growth model.

THOMAS ROBEBT MALTHUS, the economist, author of the “Essay on the Principle of Population”, died a hundred years ago on December 23, 1834, and the centenary was celebrated in Cambridge on March 2.

The only constant is change. Over time, demographics, climate, regimes, jurisdictions and natural land and water boundaries ...

Darwin and Malthus: The year was 1838. In England, the Industrial Revolution was under way, but it had made rich only the owners of production, not the workers.

More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong predictions: continuous population growth arising from ...

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived in Britain from 1766 to 1834. His most famous work was An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in 1798 ...

Painting of Thomas Malthus by John Linnell. Photo by Heliogravure, Corpus Imaginum, Hanfstaengl Collection via Alamy. Few names ignite disdain among both liberals and conservatives as much as “Malthus ...

Thomas Robert Malthus was born into a clerical family in Surrey in 1766. Neither rich nor poor, the family was of the middling sort that will be familiar to any who have read the novels of his ...

In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, a popular economist, published An Essay on the Principle of Population. In this essay, Malthus argued that population grew geometrically while food production grew ...