“increase the parish allowances in proportion to the price of corn.”
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
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science · British political economist (1766–1834) · economist · essayist · statistician · demographer · Anglican priest · sociologist · mathematician · writer · political economist · also Thomas Robert Malthus, Thomas R. Malthus, Thomas Malthus, Malthus
Born 13 February 1766 · Died 23 December 1834 · Q13526
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2026· 2 entries
“the increase of population is necessarily limited by subsistence”
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2024· 1 entry
The Conversation: Books That Shook the Business World: An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus
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1835· 1 entry
And of Donnington, Sussex in 1837; he married Sofia Otter, daughter of Bishop William Otter and died in August 1882, aged 76
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1834· 7 entries
Died 1834-12-23.
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“Original: «Population, when unchecked, increase in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio”
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“Original: «Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity. We are not patiently to submit to it, but to exert ourselves to avoid it.”
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“Original: «The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced eye or an inherent spleen of disposition.”
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“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio.”
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“Parece que a partir de las inevitables leyes de nuestra naturaleza, algunos seres humanos deben sufrir por la escasez. Estas son las personas infelices que, en la gran lotería de la vida, han quedado en blanco.”
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“To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.”
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1827· 2 entries
Published Definitions in Political Economy The first chapter put forth "Rules for the Definition and Application of Terms in Political Economy"
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Gave evidence to a committee of the House of Commons on emigration
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1821· 1 entry
Of the Political Economy Club, where John Cazenove tended to be his ally against Ricardo and Mill
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1820· 1 entry
Malthus published Principles of Political Economy
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1818· 1 entry
Malthus became a Fellow of the Royal Society
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1817· 1 entry
Malthus proposed that "to give full effect to the natural resources of [Ireland] a great part of the population should be swept from the soil into large manufacturing and commercial Towns",
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1805· 1 entry
Malthus became Professor of History and Political Economy at the East India Company College in Hertfordshire
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1804· 1 entry
On 13 March 1804, Thomas Malthus married Harriet Eckersall, the eldest daughter of his first cousins John and Catherine Eckersall, who lived near Bath.
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1803· 1 entry
Became rector of Walesby, Lincolnshire
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1784· 1 entry
Studied at Jesus College (1784).
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1766· 1 entry
Born 1766-02-13.
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