Thomas Malthus was an English economist who argued that population growth occurs exponentially while food production increases arithmetically, leading to a decrease in food per person. He believed that premature death from factors like famine, war, and disease were necessary to control the population. Malthus favored moral restraints like late marriage and abstinence for the poor classes to limit population growth. His influential writings promoted reducing support for the poor in England.

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