Thomas Robert Malthus
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Thomas Robert Malthus
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Thomas Robert Malthus 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 populat
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British political economist (1766–1834)
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2002-01-09T12:26:50Z
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2024-08-27T14:59:10Z
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