Malthus, Thomas

Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Popular tion. New York Oxford University Press, 2008. A scholarly edition of Malthus s most famous work. Poston, Dudley L., Jr., and Leon F. Bouvier. Popular tion and Society An Introduction to Demography. New York Cambridge University Press, 2010. A college-level textbook that covers demography as a science, written for a nonspecialist audience. 

Thomas Malthus relied on an exponential-growth model to make his famous prediction about human population growth. 

In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, in An Essay on the Principle of Population made two postulates First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. Secondly, That the passion between the sexes is necessary and will remain nearly in its present state. Malthus then expanded upon his postulates I say that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unehecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetic ratio. ... 

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published his famous Essay on Population, a report predicting that the world s food supplies could not keep up with the growing human population and that... 

Overpopulation has been a concern since the time of British economist and philosopher Thomas Malthus, who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population , first published in 1798. He thought that overpopulation must eventually lead to inaeased starvation and disease until further growth was not possible. However, he did not foresee the huge improvements in food production and medical knowledge the human population has increased from about one billion when Malthus first published his essay to seven billion in 2013. 

In 1798, an English clergyman named Thomas Robert Malthus predicted part of the world food problem. He stated, "The power of population is infinitely greater than the power in the earth to provide subsistence for man." Malthus, however, failed to see the many changes of the future. For almost 200 years, we proved Malthus wrong because, as the population increased, new land wtis brought under cultivation and machinery, chemicals, new crops and varieties, and irrigation were added to step up the yields. 

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