Following the influence of Malthus and concerns stemming from his An Essay On The Principle Of Population the UK census as we know it today started in 1801.

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he wrote:

In An Essay on the Principle of Population, the first edition published in 1798, Thomas Malthus ended with two chapters on natural theology and population.

Between 1798 and 1826 Malthus published six editions of his famous treatise, An Essay on the Principle of Population, updating each edition to incorporate new material, to address criticism, and to convey changes in his own perspectives on the subject.

Overpopulation has been a fascination of many, including economic theorist Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus whose " An Essay on the Principal of Population " was first published in 1798.

* 1798: An Essay on the Principle of Population published by Thomas Malthus

* The first ( anonymous ) publication occurs of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus.

In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population partly in response to Condorcet's views on the " perfectibility of society " as outlined in the Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind.

* 1798 — Thomas Malthus discussed human population growth and food production in An Essay on the Principle of Population.

The book echoes some of the concerns and predictions of Thomas Malthus in An Essay on the Principle of Population ( 1798 ).

Besides the above-mentioned, Price wrote an Essay on the Population of England ( 2nd ed., 1780 ) which directly influenced Thomas Robert Malthus ; two Fast-day Sermons, published respectively in 1779 and 1781 ; and Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the World ( 1784 ).

Famous for his classic work, An Essay on the Principles of Population, he was affectionally referred to by his Haileyburian students as " Pop " or " Population " Malthus.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels attribute the doctrine to Lassalle ( notably in Critique of the Gotha Programme ( 1875 ), Marx ), crediting the idea to Thomas Malthus in his work, An Essay on the Principle of Population, and the terminology to Goethe's " great, eternal iron laws " in Das Göttliche.

# Thomas Robert Malthus – An Essay on the Principle of Population

* Thomas Robert Malthus publishes the first edition of An Essay on the Principle of Population ( anonymously ) in London.

* Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population

Malthusianism refers primarily to ideas derived from the political / economic thought of Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, as laid out initially in his 1798 writings, An Essay on the Principle of Population, which describes how unchecked population growth is exponential ( 1 → 2 → 4 → 8 ) while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical ( 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 ).

Malthus revised his theories in later editions of An Essay on the Principles of Population, taking a more optimistic tone, although there is some scholarly debate on the extent of his revisions.

Doubts about the long run prospects for continuous growth in the industrial age are commonly described as beginning around the publishing of An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798 by Thomas Robert Malthus.

He has published seven volumes of poetry, the first of which was Summer Love and Surf and the latest of which is Perfidious Proverbs ( Humanity Books, 2011 ); three novels, including Apes and Angels ( Putnam, 1989 ); and half a dozen nonfiction books, including the widely used Norton Critical Edition, Darwin and the Norton Critical Edition of Malthus ' Essay on Population.

The censuses were initially conducted partly to ascertain the number of men able to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, and partly over population concerns stemming from the 1798 work An Essay on the Principle of Population by Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus.

Thomas Malthus wrote two books, An essay on the principle of population, published in 1798, and Principles of political economy, published in 1820.

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was defended on " scientific or economic principals " while the authors of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 were seen as not having had the benefit of reading Malthus.

Malthus married his cousin Harriet on 12 April 1804 and had three children: Henry, Emily and Lucy.

Contrary to Malthus ' predictions and in line with his thoughts on moral restraint, natural population growth in most developed countries has diminished to close to zero, without being held in check by famine or lack of resources, as people in developed nations have shown a tendency to have fewer children.

When discussing the resource loss on Luna and likelihood of ensuing food riots, Professor de la Paz suggests that Mannie read the work of Thomas Malthus.

The political economist Thomas Malthus believed this to be a fair price, and that it would be dangerous for Britain to rely on imported corn because lower prices would reduce labourers ' wages, and manufacturers would lose out due to the decrease of purchasing power of landlords and farmers.

* One school of thought is that Dickens based Scrooge's views on the poor on those of demographer and political economist Thomas Malthus.

Malthus on population, James Hutton and Lyell on geology, Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, and above all, the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, which put evolution into everyday discussion amongst literate folk.

Jeremy Bentham argued for a disciplinary, punitive approach to social problems, whilst the writings of Thomas Malthus focused attention on overpopulation, and the growth of illegitimacy.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia (" Theories of Overpopulation "), Nitti ( Population and the Social System, 1894 ) was a staunch critic of English economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his Principle of Population.

His students affectionately referred to him as " Pop " or " Population " Malthus.

* Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge

Many earlier predictions of resource depletion, such as Thomas Malthus ' 1798 predictions about approaching famines in Europe, The Population Bomb ( 1968 ), Limits to Growth ( 1972 ), and the Simon – Ehrlich wager ( 1980 ) did not materialize, nor has diminished production of most resources occurred so far, one reason being that advancements in technology and science have allowed some previously unavailable resources to be produced.

* Two Lectures on Population, with a correspondence between the author and Malthus ( 1829 )

* Francis Place publishes Illustrations and Proofs of the Principles of Population, including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others in London, the first significant text in English to advocate contraception.

" The Doctrine of Malthus and the Increase of Population During the Last Decades.

Malthus himself essentially claimed that British society would collapse under the weight of overpopulation by 1850, while during the 1960s the book The Population Bomb made similar dire predictions for the US by the 1980s.

Malthus — a devout Christian — argued that revelation would " damp the soaring wings of intellect ", and thus never let " the difficulties and doubts of parts of the scripture " interfere with his work.

Charles Darwin studied de Candolle's " natural system " of classification in 1826 when at the University of Edinburgh, and in the inception of Darwin's theory in 1838 he considered " the warring of the species ", adding that it was even more strongly conveyed by Thomas Malthus, producing the pressures that Darwin later called natural selection.

The cornucopians are sometimes known as " Boomsters ", and their philosophic opponents — Malthus and his school — are called " Doomsters " or " Doomers.

* " The Opinions of Messrs. Say, Sismondi and Malthus, on Effects of Machinery and Accumulation ", 1821, Edinburgh Review

Malthus believed in " positive checks ", which lead to ' premature ' death: disease, starvation, war, resulting in what is called a Malthusian catastrophe.