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6 giorni fa · Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction , Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus's ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic ...
7 ore fa · In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus asserted that exponential population growth will invariably exceed available resources, making mass death inevitable. In his book The Black Death and the Transformation of the West , David Herlihy explores whether the plague was an inevitable crisis of population and resources.
3 giorni fa · Whether what has been termed the ‘population explosion’ should be considered a blessing or a menace is framed by May within the contrast between the pessimistic view of Thomas Robert Malthus and the initially laissez-faire Marxist perspective, with reference to the more nuanced recent theories of the Danish economist, Ester Boserup.
5 giorni fa · An Essay on the Principle of Population. In 1798, Thomas Malthus anonymously published this Essay, outlining why the forces of population growth tend to create a "struggle for existence" (see page 14). This book had a significant influence on Darwin as he looked for mechanisms that might explain evolutionary change.
2 giorni fa · Thomas Malthus Spencer's work also served to renew interest in the work of Malthus. While Malthus's work does not itself qualify as social Darwinism, his 1798 work An Essay on the Principle of Population , was incredibly popular and widely read by social Darwinists.
7 ore fa · One of the largest fears at the time was overpopulation — sometimes called Malthusianism after an 18th-century demographer, Thomas Malthus, who proposed that population would eventually grow faster than food production, meaning that, eventually, humanity would be unable to feed everyone.
2 giorni fa · Responses to the problems of poverty varied greatly. Scrooge’s assertion that the poor should die to reduce the population reflects the ideas of Thomas Robert Malthus, who had written in 1798 that Britain’s ‘surplus population’ had to be reduced naturally by famine and disease.
