Figure 1 Malthus’ theory
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was born in Surrey and went to Cambridge University before being ordained into the Church of England. He later became a professor of history and political economy. His most famous work, An Essay on the Principle of Population, was published in 1798.
Malthus began his argument in this essay with two reasonable assumptions:
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