Thomas robert malthus theory

Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) was a British economist, demographer, and Anglican priest who has set the standard in both economics and biology for his theory of evolution, in which he argued that the population increased geometrically and food from arithmetic form.

According to Malthus, this implied that the population grew more than the means of subsistence, which is why different moments of crisis arise in which people have no way to survive.

He considered that nature itself would put an end to those critical moments with famines, wars and epidemics, which would imply a decrease in the population.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1834)

To avoid reaching these extreme situations, Malthus proposed to take measures such as late marriage and premarital abstinence.

The approach of Malthus influenced and served as support to develop evolutionary theories like those of Charles Darwin, in which natural