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Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Malthus
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Thomas Malthus
Age: 68 †
Born: 1766
Born: February 14
Died: 1834
Died: December 23
Anglican Priest
Demographer
Economist
Essayist
Mathematician
Scientist
Sociologist
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Warwickshire
England
Thomas R. Malthus
Subsistence
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It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
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The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.
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