Thomas Robert Malthus

• Main Author: Reisman, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Great Thinkers in Economics,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Population.; Welfare economics.; Public finance.; Agricultural economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Population Economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Economic History.; Public Economics.; Agricultural Economics.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for extending the insights of Adam Smith at a time of revolutionary improvements in agriculture and industry. This book explores the way in which he accounted for the tendency to overpopul...