Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

19th Century Thinkers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

The best-known theodicy based on principles of economics was written by Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), an Anglican cleric and economist who made major contributions to the fields of political economy and demography. In An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that nations’ populations tend to grow more rapidly than their food supply, a situation […]

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