Thomas Robert Malthus
1766 – 1834 · United Kingdom · Political Economy
Population pressure as an economic law; the argument every food and climate debate revisits.
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- Charles Darwin
1809 – 1882 · Biology
Malthus on population pressure gave Darwin the mechanism of selection.
- John Stuart Mill
1806 – 1873 · Political Economy, Philosophy
Mill's Principles argues with Malthus over population, wages and the stationary state.
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