About Population and Ageing

TR Malthus, originator of Malthusian population theory

The Rev. Thomas R Malthus (1766-1834), English demographer and political scientist, began modern analysis of population in terms of 'laws'- a classic Enlightenment approach. A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, and later elected a fellow in 1793, Malthus' population theory, contained in Essay on the principle of population, still elicits strong views and controversy today.

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