Thomas Robert Malthus

1766 - 1858

Titles on this disk:

• author: Definitions in Political Economy
• author: An Essay on the Principle of Population [1798, 1st ed.]
• author: An Essay on the Principle of Population, vol. 1 [1826, 6th ed.]
• author: An Essay on the Principle of Population, vol. 2 [1826, 6th ed.]
• author: Principles of Political Economy
• author: Two Lectures on Population, to which is added, a Correspondence between the Author and the Rev. T. R. Malthus

About this person:

Following his success with his work on population, Malthus published often from his economics position on the faculty at the East India College at Haileybury. He was not only respected in his time by contemporaneous intellectuals for his clarity of thought and willingness to focus on the evidence at hand, but he was also an engaging writer capable of presenting logical and mathematical concepts succinctly and clearly. In addition to writing principles texts and articles on timely topics such as the corn laws, he wrote in many venues summarizing his initial works on population, including a summary essay in the Encyclopædia Britannica on population. [The image comes from “The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University.”]