WORLD HISTORY

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote ‘An essay on the Principal of Population’?
A
Thomas Malthus
B
David Ricardo
C
John Stuart Mill
D
Adam Smith
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1798 Thomas Malthus published anonymously An Essay on the Principle of Population. In subsequent editions (published from 1803 to 1826), he expanded his argument, adding more factual material and illustrations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Robert Malthus There are two versions of Thomas Robert Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population. The first, published anonymously in 1798, was so successful that Malthus soon elaborated on it under his real name.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1798 Thomas Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population. It posed the conundrum of geometrical population growth’s outstripping arithmetic expansion in resources. Malthus, who was an Anglican clergyman, recommended late marriage and sexual abstinence as methods of birth control.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Malthusian Theory of Population is the theory of exponential population and arithmetic food supply growth. The theory was proposed by Thomas Robert Malthus. He believed that a balance between population growth and food supply can be established through preventive and positive checks.

Detailed explanation-5: -Who was Thomas Malthus? Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without strict limits on reproduction.

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