The dire predictions of Thomas Malthus about the limits of population growth because of the fixity of resources might not seem threatening anymore.

Thomas Malthus then stated that the inability of the population to grow enough food would lead to famine and pestilence reducing the number of people on earth to match available resources.

This idea is related to the belief of an 18th-century scholar named Thomas Malthus . His theory predicted the effect of a population growing much faster than their available resources such as food could sustain.

Summary: Confounding the grim prediction made by the British economist Thomas Malthus in 1798, the world currently produces more than enough food for a population that has increased almost tenfold since then.

As an economist I was intrigued by the plot which was based on the essay of Thomas Malthus in 1798, who wrote on population, predicting that the natural tendency of population is to grow faster than the food supply.

Thomas Malthus , a British economist writing in the late 1700s, is the most famous of these.

As devoted followers of Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich, the club argued that bad things come from exponential growth, and good things from linear growth.

It is tempting to say that Hardin's essay has attained the same status and retained the same unflagging influence as Thomas Malthus 's (1798) An Essay on Population.

Basically, Thomas Malthus said that the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence, that population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and that the superior power of population is repressed by "moral restraint, vice, and misery."

The most common interpretation approaches it as a youthful flirtation, originating in his acknowledged intellectual debts to Thomas Malthus . In this telling, mature Keynes abandoned his early eugenic interests, or at least politely set them aside near the end of his life.

In 1798, with the world's population hovering at around one billion, English political economist Thomas Malthus wrote a fateful essay.