Thomas Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus was an English cleric, scholar, and influential economist known for his theories on population growth. He argued that population tends to increase faster than the food supply, leading to checks such as famine, disease, and war, a view that shaped later economic and political thought. His most famous work, 'An Essay on the Principle of Population', first published in 1798, had a profound impact on fields from economics to biology.