Thomas) Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 23 December 1834) was a British cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease.
This Essay might, undoubtedly, have been rendered much more complete by a collection of a greater number of facts in elucidation of the general argument. But, joined to a desire (perhaps imprudent) of not ...