Thomas Robert Malthus,  (born in Surrey, England, February 13, 1766 - died at Haileybury, Hertford, England, December 23, 1834 ), which is usually known as Thomas Malthus, although he prefers to be called "Robert Malthus", English is an expert on demographics and the political economist is most famous for his view that pessimistic but highly influential on the population.


Life

Malthus was born into a wealthy family. His father, Daniel, was a personal friend of the philosopher and skeptic David Hume and the acquaintance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Young Malthus was educated at home until he was accepted at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1784. There he learned many lessons and was awarded the subject in English declamation, Latin and Greek. The main subject is math. He obtained a master's degree in 1791 and was elected fellow of Jesus College two years later. In 1797, he was ordained and became an Anglican priest in the village.


Malthus married in 1804 and he and his wife have three children. In 1805 he became Britain's first professor in political economy at the East India Company College at Haileybury in Hertfordshire. Greet students as pet "Pop" (which can mean "daddy") "Population" Malthus. In 1818, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.


Malthus made his photo rejected by the year 1833 because he felt ashamed of cleft palate. This problem was repaired surgically, and Malthus considered very handsome. Cleft also extends into the mouth that affects her speech. This defect is congenital is quite common in the family environment.
Malthus was buried in Bath Abbey in England.


Principle of Population

The views of Malthus generally developed as a reaction to the optimistic views of his father and his colleagues, especially Rousseau. Malthus's essay is also made in response to the views of the Marquis de Condorcet. In An Essay on the Principle of Population (An Essay on the Principle of Population), which was first published in 1798, Malthus made the famous prediction that population would beat the food supply, which cause a reduction in the amount of food per person.


(Case & Fair, 1999: 790). He even specifically predict that this will happen in the mid-19th century, a prediction which failed for several reasons, including the use of static analysis, which takes into account the latest trends and projected indefinitely into the future, which almost always fail for complex systems.