Prologue: opening the door on Malthus's rollercoaster -- Before Malthus: population, economy and environment in … eighteenth century England -- Prophets of perfection: a revolutionary triptych -- The first inconvenient truth: Malthus's essay … and the quiet revolution of 1798 -- "Diarrhoea of the intellect": Malthus as the malign muse of romanticism -- Malthus and …

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a leading figure in the British classical school of economics, best-known for … effective demand. Malthus relied on historical and empirical evidence in the spirit of Bacon and Hume, but also backed up his … data with a priori hypotheses that link him to his contemporary, David Ricardo. Malthus was strongly in favour of free …