3. Malthus Theory of Population

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Thomas Robert Malthus was born on 13 February 1766 at Westcott, Surrey, Great Britain. Malthus entered Jesus College in 1784, and graduated with a Master of Arts and honors in 1791. Malthus started his career with the study history and political economy. In 1805 Malthus pursued his studies and became a professor of political economy at the East India Company's college in Haileybury, Hertfordshire where he remained until his death. Malthus is most well known for his work "An Essay on the Principle of Population" which was published in 1798. He also wrote pamphlets and more longer essays such as "An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent" (1815) and "Principles of Political Economy" (1820). He later died on the 23 of December in 1834.

Malthus believed that there were not enough resources on the Earth for all of the humans to share. He believes that things should be given to the wealthy and none for the poor. He also thought that if there were less human beings then the wealthy could enjoy their resources. He took action by proposing that the poor should have a limit to the number of children they could have further reducing the amount of poor people to the society. His reasoning behind such radical thinking was that famine and poverty were natural outcomes that were bestowed upon them by God. He thought that such natural outcomes were to stop man from being lazy. While his beliefs were mostly radically opposed he still continued to produce more work.

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