Thomas Malthus (1766 - 1834)

Thomas Robert Malthus was born in February 1766 near Guildford, Surrey. His father is prosperous, but he is educating his son at home, not in his form. Malthus went to Cambridge University and earned a master's degree in 1791. In 1793 he was appointed a researcher at Jesus College in Cambridge. In 1805, Malthus became a professor of history and political economy at the East India Company University (the first university of such academic institution) in Hayley Berry, Hertfordshire until his death.

In 1819, Malthus was elected a member of the Royal Society and, after two years, became a member of a political economic club including David Ricardo and James Mill. In 1824, he was elected as one of the royal family members of the Royal Literature Society. Malthus was also one of the co-founder of the Statistics Association of London in 1834.

Malthus's most famous book "population principle of population" was published in 1798, but he has many pamphlets including "Exploration of nature and progress of rent" (1815) and "principle" politics The author of the long chapter. Economics "(1820). The main principle of his argument is entirely against the way of thinking at the time. He believes that the increase in population ultimately will weaken the ability of the world to cultivate itself, and this conclusion is based on the argument that the population will expand in ways beyond crop development. In connection with Darwin, its natural selection theory is influenced by the analysis of population growth in Malthus, but Malthus is often misunderstood, but with the arrival of Keynesian economics, his views spread again in the 20th century Did.

Recall that British economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) proposed that the population growth rate of the world far exceeds the development of food supply. Malthus proposed an exponential increase in the population, but food production increased linearly. For example. During the Malthus era, only a relatively small number of relatively wealthy countries entered the second stage population growth model with a high population growth rate (see Module 2 for reviews). He did not think the relatively poor countries will make the fastest population increase due to the medical revolution. Many social scientists, even environmentalists, are firm conspirators of Malthus, the forthcoming global food shortage hypothesis, and are taking another step. The increase and consumption of the population can exceed not only food production but all kinds of natural resources on the earth.

Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) occupies a position in the history of biology, but he and his contemporaries believe that he is not a biologist but a political economist. Malthus grew up in a revolutionary period and a new philosophy of mankind. He chose a conservative path, accepted sacred orders in 1797 and started writing essays to attack the idea that humans and society can improve as much as possible. The most famous work of Malthus published in 1798 is a paper on the principle of population as it influences future social improvement. Among them, Malthus is doubtful whether or not the country will no longer need the law, and everyone will be able to live with prosperity and harmony preserved. He thinks that the pain inherent in the existence of humans is that the population growth will always exceed the ability to support myself.