Thomas Robert Malthus

A casual look back into history will reveal that Thomas Robert Malthus was a person of the English State Church and an economist who lived from 1766-1834.

The Depopulation of Planet Earth 2008

The human carrying capacity is a concept explored by many people, most famously Thomas Robert Malthus (1766 - 1834), for hundreds of years.

AP Environmental Science Chapter 7- Carrying Capacity 2008

Exploding population is a threat at least as old as the doomsday prophecies of 18th-century British cleric Thomas Robert Malthus, which proved premature.

Through A Glass, Very Darkly 2008

In 1798, an English clergyman and economist named Thomas Robert Malthus published the Essay on the Principle of Population.

Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

Like so many leisurely but inquiring gentlemen of his day, Daniel Malthus enjoyed nothing better than a stimulating intellectual dialogue, and for an opponent he usually turned to his gifted son, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

It would be hard to imagine two persons more widely separated in background and career than Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Like so many leisurely but inquiring gentlemen of his day, Daniel Malthus enjoyed nothing better than a stimulating intellectual dialogue, and for an opponent he usually turned to his gifted son, the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

It would be hard to imagine two persons more widely separated in background and career than Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Perhaps the most cited demographic theory in history is that of Thomas Robert Malthus who, in 1798, laid forth an argument that the power of the human race to reproduce exceeds the power of the earth to produce subsistence for ever-growing numbers.

The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997

Thomas Robert Malthus was born near Dorking, Surrey, England, Feb. 17, 1766, and after passing through the University of Cambridge was ordained, and travelled on the Continent.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910