An Essay on the Principle of Population

Thomas Malthus is an outcome of fixed western European ethics. Malthus’s leading edge composition, an essay on the principle of population is inspired by Malthus’ views on the human nature reproduction, societal posturing, and integrity. Malthus’s progressive and visionary rationalization, abstracted him from conventional European contemplation, padded with practical predictions supported by mathematical statistics and biological understandings of human nature. His compositions have brought up many social and economical world issues that humans face today like food production, population control, extreme poverty, diseases and wars. Though Malthus’ statistics are incorrect because he could have not predicted rapid technological advancements that would enhance food production, from different stand points he is correct, when looking at undeveloped countries…

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published a book titled, “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he argued that population growth will certainly exceed the production of food, resulting in widespread famine.There are two reasons why some geographers today believe and two reasons why they don’t believe Malthus’ theory can be used to predict future population issues. Some geographers support Malthus’ theory today, because the population has been growing rapidly as Malthus predicted. For…

Critiques of social circumstances firmly rooted in reality may seem to be more appropriately suited by arguments with foundations in fact rather than fiction, but there is also much to be said about the merits of storytelling in these social commentaries. Reason and fantasy do not have to be separate to make an effective and compelling case. Fiction can aid the truth by putting emphasis on certain aspects of it, modeling what could be, and eliciting an emotional response from the audience. In…

Finally, it is important to describe Malthus’s legacy and the reception of his findings. Malthus created such an impact in future research about demography, that his theory is now regarded as an approximate natural law of population measure for all species (Pullen, 2004). In addition, Malthus’s ideas not only promoted the creation of a national population census in the UK (1801), but also helped pass the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act which provided consolation for the poverty-stricken (Caldwell,…

Would there be a positive result if there was a population of 1,200,000,000 people and a food supply of only half that number? Clearly, there would be a major problem. Unfortunately, this problematic situation may happen in the future. The Malthusian Theory of population, created by Thomas Malthus, is the theory that the population will outgrow its resources, leading to famine. Malthus stated that the populations increase in geometric progression and that food supplies increase in arithmetic…

medical field were not the reason for the population increase in the industrialized world but rather improvements in things such as the standard of living – especially diet and nutritional health which brought about better economic conditions and resulted in an population increase (McKeown, 2002). The objective of this article is to examine the criticism surrounding McKeown’s work and how this in turn has impacted public health research and policy (McKeown, 2002). One criticism against McKeown’s…

Darwin derived the concept of the struggle for existence in part from Malthus's essay. He believed that creatures less fit for their environment would tend to die off. This would be called the struggle for existence. Some people thought that nature was a balanced system, but Darwin saw it as a mechanism. He believed the creatures that were best adapted would survive. Although Darwin agreed with Malthus on the struggle of individuals, he differed in opinion on Malthus's idea of the increase…

As the capitalist system came to fruition, the early classical economists of this time developed categories to analyze this system. Thomas Robert Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, and David Ricardo’s On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation attempt to explain the newly integrated world while criticising the mercantilist ideas that the European countries had adopted during this period of time. The contrast between mercantilism…

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Thomas Malthus’ Essay on the Principles of Population differ drastically in tone and message. Smith’s Wealth of Nations has an analytical tone and a message of economic theory developed deductively through observation of the markets around him. Malthus’ Essay adopts a harsher and more skeptic tone towards future economic development and promotes a message of limited growth for the future because of finite resources, disease, and war, among other factors.…

Francis Bacon’s holding of adulterated moral and religious position clarifies his pragmatist mind in his essays. He made an agreement with pragmatism which is defined by Mautner in his Dictionary of Philosophy: “Pragmatism can be briefly described as the theory that a proposition is true if holding it to be so is practically successful or advantageous.” (2005, p.485) He deals with problems that choke our worldly success in a practical way keeping morality aside. His essays reverse the…