Malthus, Thomas Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT mal th s, 1766 1834, English economist...by arithmetical ratio. As checks on population growth, Malthus first accepted only war, famine, and disease, but in his...economists, especially David Ricardo. However, unlike Ricardo, Malthus did not agree with Jean Baptiste Say s law of markets...