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The Nature Of Rent

The Nature Of Rent

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1544241593
ISBN13: 9781544241593
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 7 2017
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 - 29 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography. Malthus himself used only his middle name, Robert. In his book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. In other words, mankind had a propensity to utilize abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view that has become known as the Malthusian trap or the Malthusian spectre. Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship and want and greater susceptibility to famine and disease, a view that is sometimes referred to as a Malthusian catastrophe. Malthus wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. He saw population growth as being inevitable whenever conditions improved, thereby precluding real progress towards a utopian society: The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. As an Anglican cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour.

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