The seminal essay on population growth by Thomas Robert Malthus is
published here anew, complete and unabridged. Although wrong in its
prediction of mass famine owing to population growth outpacing the
growth in production of food, this essay became very influential
among scientific and economic thinkers. Evolutionary science in
particular appreciated the efforts of Malthus, with both Alfred
Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin citing his paper as an influence
on their own papers on natural selection. Malthus theorised that
the fast rising numbers of people in the industrialising world
would result in lowered wages, higher unemployment, and hence
greater impoverishment and even famine. This idea, and others on
the same theme, have acquired the term Malthusian over more than
two centuries since this paper originally appeared - to this day
commentators reference Malthus's themes when examining the world's
rising population levels.
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