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Thomas Robert Malthus

1766 - 1834

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Thomas Robert Malthus (; 13/14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the population, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. In other words, humans had a propensity to use abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view and stance that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Robert Malthus has received more than 3,508,661 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Thomas Robert Malthus is the 5th most popular economist, the 66th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Economist.

Thomas Robert Malthus is most famous for his theory that population growth will always outpace food production.

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Among economists, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 5 out of 414. Before him are Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and David Ricardo. After him are John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Vilfredo Pareto, Joseph Schumpeter, Frédéric Passy, and Alfred Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 2. Before him is John Dalton. After him are Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Germaine de Staël, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Nikolay Karamzin, Johanna Schopenhauer, Charlotte, Princess Royal, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Among people deceased in 1834, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 1. After him are Pedro I of Brazil, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Sunjo of Joseon, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alois Senefelder, William Carey, François-Adrien Boieldieu, and Husein Gradaščević.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 66 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), William Wallace (1270), Edward Jenner (1749), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charles, Prince of Wales (1948), and Harold Harefoot (1016). After him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), John Stuart Mill (1806), Alex Ferguson (1941), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Edward Heath (1916), and Ridley Scott (1937).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Robert Malthus ranks 4. Before him are Adam Smith (1723), John Maynard Keynes (1883), and David Ricardo (1772). After him are John Stuart Mill (1806), Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), William Stanley Jevons (1835), John Hicks (1904), and Benjamin Graham (1894).

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